Every Democrat in the Senate voted against proceeding onto the National Defense Authorization Act. There's a lot of good in that bill. Starts of new programs. We need pay raises for our troops. 3.6%. Yeah. But There is something in that bill that Pearson Sharp is not too keen on, and that is the weaving of our research, development, test and evaluation apparatus into the idf, into the Israeli Defense Forces. A lot of Democrats spoke to this as one of the reasons why they were not willing to proceed on to this bill. Pearson Sharp, were you cheering on Democrats blocking the ndaa? (14:42–14:56)
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Asserts that the NDAA includes provisions for integrating U.S. military R&D with the Israeli Defense Forces.
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