在共和党人的领导下，众议院周四批准了对年度国防授权法案的几项有争议的修正案，保证了在最后通过时与民主党人的斗争，议长凯文·麦卡锡表示，他预计周五将会通过。
随着周四晚上更多投票的到来，众议院批准了对NDAA的修改，包括禁止五角大楼支付州外堕胎的旅行费用，禁止公开跨性别服役人员的医疗程序。投票几乎都是按照党派路线进行的。
然而，众议院以压倒性多数表示支持美国继续援助乌克兰。共和党众议员马乔里·泰勒·格林提出的3亿美元拨款修正案。，仅以89票失败。
周四早些时候，众议院开始对必须通过的军费开支和预算法案进行80项有争议的修订。虽然共和党的强硬派成员支持这些增加，但他们遭到了民主党少数派的拒绝，麦卡锡敦促对他的会议保持耐心，因为他的领导团队试图满足右翼，而不会在分裂的众议院中毁灭立法。
截至周四晚上早些时候，辩论仍在进行，未来几个小时将有更多修正案进行投票。
“一小撮MAGA极端分子决定我们将如何进行，这令人愤慨，”规则委员会的最高民主党众议员吉姆·麦戈文说。
然而，一些支持修正案的共和党人持另一种观点。
众议员玛丽·米勒。，在推特上庆祝成功的修正案，扭转了五角大楼的一项政策，即如果服务人员堕胎，他们可以报销差旅费。“好消息!”她写道。德克萨斯州共和党众议员基思·赛尔夫称军方的政策是“激进的”。
周三，面对他是否能控制他的政党的又一次考验，麦卡锡说，共和党人正在寻求驾驭众多提议的NDAA修正案。
“我们现在做了第一部分。你知道我们有1500个修正案。这需要很多时间来完成所有的工作，”他接着说。
这些变化将包括取消军事多样性项目，停止对寻求堕胎的军人进行报销的政策，恢复拒绝服从五角大楼新冠肺炎疫苗任务的军队，限制对乌克兰的资金，比如提供集束炸弹，这是被许多其他国家禁止的。
其中一些修正案已于周四被采纳，而其他修正案仍在等待投票。
2023年7月12日，众议院议长凯文·麦卡锡在华盛顿特区国会山举行的共和党会议后对媒体发表讲话。
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周四下午，与乌克兰战争有关的五项修正案获得了声音投票，其中大部分涉及限制援助。所有人都被击败了，两党联盟的300多名成员在每次投票中都投了反对票。
德克萨斯州共和党众议员奇普·罗伊周三表示，众议院共和党仍在“试图找出我们如何将所有这些联系在一起，并让它越过终点线。”
“显然有很多你们都知道的热点问题需要解决和处理，”他说，并列举了堕胎权、气候变化和跨性别群体等项目。
众议院多数党领袖史蒂夫·斯卡利斯周三表示，领导层正在与包括宾夕法尼亚州众议员斯科特·佩里在内的右翼议员就拟议修正案进行讨论。
“我们将完成这个过程。如果我们能在这个星期完成它，我们会的。如果需要更多时间，我们会接受的，对吗?”斯卡利斯说。
在每周一次的共和党会议上，麦卡锡警告说，不要修改宪法，否则会使NDAA变得复杂或缓慢。
共和党众议员南希·梅斯(Nancy Mace)本周表示，共和党领导人和成员一直鼓励会议推动NDAA向前发展。
“作为一个国家，我们除了准备和准备好我们的国防力量之外，没有什么需要做的了，无论是在国内还是国外。我们需要这样做，我们需要在这个星期这样做，我希望我们能够达到这个目标。
一些民主党人表示，如果NDAA包含右翼修正案，他们将投反对票。麦卡锡表示，他希望民主党人仍然支持该法案，而众议院民主党党团主席皮特·阿吉拉尔表示，议员们“将投票给他们的地区”和“他们的良心”。…这些政策的细节至关重要。”
除了NDAA，众议院今年晚些时候还面临着迫在眉睫的政府关门。强硬的共和党人已经要求麦卡锡同意他们的支出限制，如果他想要他们对未来的拨款法案投票的话。
House approves some GOP hard-liner changes to military spending bill, ensuring fight with Dems
House approves some GOP hard-liner changes to military spending bill, ensuring fight with Dems
Led by Republicans, the House on Thursday approved several controversial amendments to the annual National Defense Authorization Act -- guaranteeing a fight with Democrats during final passage, which Speaker Kevin McCarthy said he expects to be on Friday.
With more votes to come Thursday night, the House approved changes to the NDAA that included banning the Pentagon from covering travel costs for out-of-state abortions and prohibiting medical procedures for openly transgender service members. The votes were almost all along party lines.
However, the chamber overwhelmingly expressed support for continued U.S. assistance to Ukraine. The amendment to strike $300 million in funding proposed by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., failed with only 89 votes.
Earlier Thursday, the full House began working through 80 controversial amendments to the must-pass military spending and budget bill. While hard-line members of the Republican Party backed these additions, they were rejected by the Democratic minority and McCarthy urged patience for his conference as his leadership team sought to satisfy the right flank without dooming the legislation in the divided chamber.
Debate was ongoing as of early Thursday evening, with more amendments set for votes in the coming hours.
"It's outrageous that a small minority of MAGA extremists is dictating how we'll proceed," Rep. Jim McGovern, the top Democrat on the Rules Committee, said.
Some of the Republicans backing the amendments, however, took another view.
Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., tweeted in celebration of the successful amendment to reverse a Pentagon policy to reimburse service members for travel expenses if they get an abortion. "Great news!" she wrote. Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, called the military's policy "radical."
On Wednesday, facing yet another test of whether he can corral his party, McCarthy said Republicans were seeking to navigate the numerous proposed NDAA amendments.
"We did the first part now. You know we have 1,500 amendments. It takes a lot of time to work through all of it," he said then.
The changes would include gutting military diversity programs, stopping the policy to reimburse service members seeking abortions, reinstating troops who refused to comply with the Pentagon's COVID-19 vaccine mandate and limiting the funds for Ukraine,like providing cluster bombs, which are banned by numerous other countries.
Some of those amendments were taken up Thursday while others were still awaiting a vote.
Five amendments related to the war in Ukraine, the majority of which concerned limiting aid, received voice votes Thursday afternoon. All were defeated, with bipartisan coalitions of more than 300 members voting against them in each vote.
Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas said Wednesday that the House GOP was still "trying to figure out how we're going to pull all that together and get it across the finish line."
"There's obviously a lot of hot-button issues you all know that need to be addressed and dealt with," he said, listing items like abortion access, climate change and the transgender community.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said Wednesday that leadership was having ongoing discussions with right-wing lawmakers including Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania about the proposed amendments.
"We're going to work through the process. If we can finish it all this week, we will. If it takes more time we'll take it, right?" Scalise said.
During the weekly GOP conference meeting, McCarthy had warned against amendments that could complicate or slow down the NDAA.
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., said this week that Republican leaders and members have been encouraging the conference to push the NDAA forward.
"There's nothing more that we need to do as a nation other than to prepare and ready our defense forces, whether it's here or abroad. We need to do this, we need to do it this week, and I hope that we can get there," Mace said.
Some Democrats have said they will vote against the NDAA if it includes the right-wing amendments. McCarthy has said he hopes Democrats still back the bill, while House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar has said members "will vote their districts" and "their conscience. … the details of these policies matter."
Beyond the NDAA, the House also faces a looming government shutdown later this year. Hard-line Republicans have already demanded McCarthy agree to their limits on spending if he wants their votes on future appropriations bills.
