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Obama signs National Defense Authorization Act for 2016
President Barack Obama signed the 2016 US defense budget bill into law, the White House said in a press release, Sputnik reported.On November 10, the US Senate passed the $607 billion defense budget bill that includes provisions opposing closure of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, and envisions $300 million in military assistance to Ukraine. “On Wednesday, November 25, 2015, the President [Obama] signed into law… the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016,” the release stated on Wednesday. The bill also includes spending cuts, which impact the train-end-equip program for the Syrian rebels that the United States says it has put in place to combat the Islamic State terror group. Posted by: Steve White 2015-11-26 |
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