The Republican-led House passed a $901 billion defense authorization bill that would set curbs on American investments in sensitive Chinese industries and back the Pentagon’s push to buy commercial technology to speedily equip US troops.
Lawmakers voted 312-112 to back the National Defense Authorization Act, considered an annual must-pass bill because it authorizes defense spending for the year as well as troop pay raises and military construction projects. It also sets weapons-buying and geo-strategic policy. The legislation now heads to the Senate.
Negotiators added a provision to the bill to compel Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to submit all unedited videos ...