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What concessions Republicans did, and didn’t, get in major defense bill

By Mike Brest
Published December 8, 2021 11:18pm ET
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What concessions Republicans did, and didn’t, get in major defense bill
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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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