
The Senate has voted to begin floor consideration of the final, conferenced National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which includes key provisions to enable the AUKUS trilateral security agreement with the U.K. and Australia and drops many divisive GOP-proposed measures from the House’s version of the bill. After beginning House and Senate negotiations on the defense policy bill last week, lawmakers late Wednesday evening rolled out the final version of the legislation which authorizes an $886 billion national defense topline for…