Defense Authorization, But Not Funding, Advances in Senate

After weeks of threatening to block a defense authorization bill, Democrats took their fight to the spending bill instead.

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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was one of two Republicans to vote against the National Defense Authorization Act, which was passed by the Senate on Thursday.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was one of two Republicans to vote against the National Defense Authorization Act, which was passed by the Senate on Thursday.

The Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a massive $612 billion bill setting policy for the Department of Defense, but a separate appropriations measure that would have funded those priorities was blocked moments later amid a partisan budget stalemate.

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