Defense experts were weary Wednesday of the repercussions of failure to pass the National Defense Authorization Act after President Trump mounted another veto threat late Tuesday to the must-pass legislation that guarantees everything from soldier pay raises to defense modernization programs.

“It’s a 700-page bill that’s really the minutia that keeps the wheels of the Department of Defense moving,” retired Army Maj. Gen. John Ferrari, an American Enterprise Institute defense budget analyst, told the Washington Examiner.

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