DECLAS & INTEL

The centerpiece of this massive 1,800-page-plus package is a 14.5% pay raise for junior enlisted service members and a 4.5% pay raise for all other service members. This is a huge deal. There are other key provisions covering health care, housing, childcare, military spousal support and more. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), who will take over the Senate Armed Services Committee in January, wanted $25 billion more for the Pentagon. So did Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who will take over the Defense subcommittee on the Senate Appropriations panel. But they’ll both end up backing the measure despite their grumbling. It’s the transgender provision’s inclusion that is upsetting House Democrats. Johnson’s demand for keeping it in the bill has dismayed Rep. Adam Smith (Wash.), ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee. The veteran Democrat is going to vote no on the NDAA. Smith, though, predicted the measure will pass the House. “Members of Congress are denying health care to children based on what seems to me, a culture war, partisan attempt to divide people. A partisan wedge issue, if you will. And I think that’s wrong,” Smith said. “My objection is the policy sucks … You don’t jam partisan issues through on the NDAA as a general principle.” House Armed Services Committee Chair Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) also said he was unhappy that Johnson did this on the NDAA, although he strongly supports the speaker’s position on this issue. Rogers said that since President-elect Donald Trump will bar such medical coverage soon after he’s sworn in on Jan. 20, there was no reason to do this via the NDAA. “We’ll win tomorrow, but it will be close,” Rogers told reporters Tuesday night. “[Trump] is going to stop all these social, cultural issues from being embedded as policies. So my point is, I don’t know why this is going to be in the bill when on Jan. 20, it’s a moot point.”

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