The House of Representatives on June 14 passed its annual defense policy bill with GOP-approved culture war amendments that are certain to put the House on a collision course with the Democrat-controlled Senate.
"The legislation coming out of the House today is loaded with anti-LGBTQ, anti-choice, anti-environment, and other divisive amendments guaranteed not to pass the Senate," he said in a statement.
Like the House, it does include support for military operations in the Indo-Pacific, including Taiwan, a 4.5 percent increase for service members.
The last NDAA, which was negotiated by leaders in the House and Senate, stripped most of the culture war amendments that had passed in the House version.
He released a statement that said, "It includes a funding increase that cannot be appropriated without breaking lawful spending caps and causing unintended harm to our military." The House NDAA is $12 billion less than the $895 billion cap for defense spending for the 2025 fiscal year under the debt ceiling deal that was agreed to last year while the Senate version is $16.8 billion more than that.
The White House expressed disappointment that the current version of the House NDAA provides $700 million less than the president requested for the annual shipbuilding budget and calls for funding one less ship than he had hoped for.
"The prohibitions regarding DEI efforts would impede DoD's and Federal agencies' ability to recruit and retain the diverse perspectives, experiences, and skill sets that are foundational to the strength of the Federal workforce," the White House said.
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