The final version of the annual defense budget in the House of Representatives included a number of concessions to Republicans.
Among the provisions that Republicans opposed in the National Defense Authorization Act, which the House passed on Tuesday with a 363-70 vote, were a previous amendment that would have opened the draft to women and one that would have created the Office of Countering Extremism.
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