A defense bill about more than just defense

Marketplace Morning Report

American Public Media

News, Business

4.5 • 808 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

This week, the Senate is set to take up the $900 billion National Defense Authorization Act. The House passed it last week. It is more than 3,000 pages of defense policy planning that the Senate will be digging through; the actual funding of these plans comes later. But there's also a whole lot of stuff that's not defense-related. Today, we'll dig in. Plus, we'll hear how China came to dominate in money laundering.

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0:31.1	A defense bill that is about much more than defense.
0:36.7	From Marketplace, I'm Sabri Beneshore in for David Brancaccio. This
0:40.9	week, the Senate is set to take up the $900 billion National Defense Authorization Act. The House
0:47.7	passed it last week. It is more than 3,000 pages of defense policy planning that the Senate will
0:53.8	have to dig through.
0:55.1	The actual funding of all these plans comes later.
0:57.7	The bill includes a 3.8% pay increase for members of the military.
1:02.1	It also includes $400 million of security assistance to Ukraine.
1:06.6	But there's a whole lot of stuff in this bill that is not defense-related at all.
1:11.2	Marketplaces Senior Washington correspondent Kimberly Adams has more.
1:14.7	The NDAA is considered a must-pass piece of legislation.
1:18.8	And because it's one of the few bills that always passes, people throw all kinds of things in there,
1:23.0	all kinds of controversial debates will happen.
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