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WASHINGTON \u2014 Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California is threatening to delay passage of the fiscal 2023 defense-authorization bill until January when Republicans take control of the House \u2013 and likely make him speaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has decided to cancel a floor vote on the upper chamber\u2019s version of the legislation and instead proceed directly to a compromise bill with the House. This would mark the second year in a row that the Senate has not held a vote on its own version of the bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If lawmakers do not a pass a compromise version of the NDAA by January 1, it would mark the first time in 61 years that Congress has not passed its hallmark defense bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve watched what the Democrats have done on many of these things, especially the NDAA \u2013 the woke-ism that they want to bring in there,\u201d McCarthy told reporters on Tuesday after House Republican leadership elections, where the majority of his caucus nominated him to serve as speaker in the next Congress. \u201cI actually believe the NDAA should hold up until the 1st of this year \u2013 and let\u2019s get it right.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Republican leader \u2014 who joined 149 House Republicans in voting to pass his chamber\u2019s version of the bill 329-101 in July<\/a> \u2014 did not specify what specific provisions in the legislation he considers to be \u201cwoke.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A handful of progressives typically vote against the NDAA \u2013 objecting to the defense budget topline \u2013 and 39 Democrats voted against the $839 billion House bill in July. This means that Democrats likely need at least some Republican support to pass the compromise bill, and McCarthy could forestall that if he whips enough of his caucus to vote against final passage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McCarthy\u2019s remarks came in spite of a series of meetings this week between the top Republicans and Democrats on the House and Senate Armed Services Committees to prepare a compromise NDAA with the goal of passage in early December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

House Armed Services Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash., told CSPAN on Wednesday that he\u2019s \u201cpretty sure\u201d the negotiations would produce a bicameral bill by the end of the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you kick it off four, five, six months, you are really damaging the United States military,\u201d Smith said later on Wednesday at the Politico Defense Summit. \u201cI hope Kevin McCarthy understands that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before McCarthy publicly threatened to stall the NDAA, Rep. Mike Rogers of Alabama \u2013 the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee \u2013 told reporters that the informal negotiations with the Senate have gone \u201cvery well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut who knows, it could come off track,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Other legislative priorities\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Senate Armed Services Chairman Jack Reed, D-R.I., also said that the informal discussions with the House \u201chave made progress.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reed said that the Senate \u201cdidn\u2019t have a lot of time\u201d to pass its own $847 billion version of the NDAA this week, as initially planned, \u201cbecause of other legislative priorities\u201d during the lame duck session of Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, Schumer is looking to use what little Senate floor time remains to confirm more of President Joe Biden\u2019s nominees and pass legislation relating to same-sex marriage protections, a debt ceiling increase and a government funding bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schumer argued that Republicans could block fast-track procedural mechanisms that would allow the Senate to quickly amend and pass the NDAA. He pointed to last year when Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., held up the bill and forced leadership to pull it off the floor because it did not include his China sanctions amendment over the Uighur genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe floor is so tied up because you can get a single Republican to knock out all the amendments,\u201d Schumer told Defense News. He added that \u201cwe can get more done\u201d by skipping a separate vote on the Senate NDAA and proceeding directly to final passage of a compromise bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, the decision deprives individual senators such as Tim Kaine, D-Va., the opportunity to introduce their own amendments to the behemoth bill. Kaine had hoped for a vote on his bipartisan amendment to repeal the 2002 military authorization to invade Iraq \u2013 an amendment that the House has already added to its version of the NDAA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor the second year in a row, not to do an NDAA with amendments would be a big mistake,\u201d said Kaine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision also forgoes a Senate vote on a massive package of 75 bipartisan NDAA amendments<\/a>. Those amendments include $10 billion in Taiwan military aid and foreign military sale reforms<\/a>, $841 million for a third Coast Guard icebreaker in the Arctic, and wartime contracting authorities for the Pentagon to buy large amounts of high-priority munitions with multi-year contracts<\/a> \u2013 many of which have been sent to Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Senate NDAA also includes $2 billion to accelerate munitions production<\/a> and $1 billion to more than double the net worth of the national critical minerals reserve<\/a> with the aim of lessening the defense industrial base\u2019s reliance on adversaries such as China \u2013 far more than the House version has allocated for either purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite McCarthy\u2019s threat to hold the NDAA in the House, and the Senate skipping a vote on its own version, Senate Armed Services ranking member James Inhofe, R-Okla., struck an optimistic note that Congress would pass a final bill by January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re exactly where we\u2019ve been every year at this point,\u201d said Inhofe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leo Shane III contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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