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Biden Would Veto House’s Defense Spending Bill Over GOP Policy Riders, Shipbuilding Cut

Biden Would Veto House’s Defense Spending Bill Over GOP Policy Riders, Shipbuilding Cut
President Joe Biden addresses the nation on Oct. 19, 2023 on the U.S.' support to Ukraine and Israel. Photo: The White House.

The White House has said President Biden would veto the House Appropriations Committee’s (HAC) $833.1 billion fiscal year 2025 defense spending bill, citing objections to the bill’s divisive GOP-proposed policy provisions and cuts to the shipbuilding request. Ahead of the House’s likely consideration of HAC’s Defense, State and Foreign Operations and Homeland Security spending legislation this week, the Biden administration has said it “strongly opposes” all three measures and criticized House Republicans for “again wasting time with partisan [appropriations] bills.”…

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