House passes controversial Defense bill
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🗓️ 15 July 2023
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USA TODAY Congress, Campaigns, and Democracy Reporter Miles Herszenhorn talks about a House-passed Defense bill, and looks at where Americans stand on aid to Ukraine.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson, and this is five things you need to know Saturday |
| 0:07.2 | 15th of July, 2023. |
| 0:11.2 | Today, a look at where Americans stand on AT Ukraine. |
| 0:24.4 | Plus, Iowa's governor signs a fetal heartbeat abortion ban, and we look at the latest findings |
| 0:29.6 | on the Aspartame sweetener. |
| 0:38.6 | House Republicans passed a controversial defense bill yesterday. |
| 0:42.7 | I spoke with USA Today Congress, campaigns, and democracy reporter Miles Harrison Horn |
| 0:47.8 | about the legislation and about where the GOP and Americans on the whole stand when |
| 0:53.6 | it comes to aid for Ukraine. |
| 0:55.6 | Welcome back to five things, Miles. |
| 0:57.2 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:58.8 | So the House passed a controversial defense bill yesterday. |
| 1:03.2 | What exactly is in this legislation, and does it have a chance in the Senate? |
| 1:08.0 | Great question. |
| 1:09.0 | The National Defense Authorization Act was passed by the Republican Party yesterday. |
| 1:14.5 | It was a tight vote, and it was almost a party line vote, just a couple of Democrats |
| 1:20.1 | crossed the aisle to vote with the Republicans. |
| 1:23.2 | And the reason this legislation was so controversial, and not the bipartisan vote that the NDAA usually |
| 1:30.5 | gets, was because of several amendments passed by conservative Republicans that essentially |
| 1:36.9 | injected a lot of the culture wars politics that we've been hearing into this bill. |
| 1:42.6 | For example, Republicans passed an amendment that would prevent the Department of Defense |
| 1:47.7 | from funding travel for service members to receive abortions. |
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