US President Donald Trump signed the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law Thursday, completing the passage of the largest military spending bill in US history—$901 billion, or over $1 trillion when combined with supplemental funding passed earlier this year.
The Senate voted 77-20 on Wednesday to pass the bill. The Democratic leadership, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and Minority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois, voted for the bill. They were joined by Senators Mark Kelly of Arizona and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, both of whom released a video last month calling on military personnel to disobey illegal orders—as Trump was sending the US military on a murder spree off the coast of Latin America.
Citing Trump’s statements about using troops to shoot protesters in America, Slotkin invoked the legacy of the Nuremberg tribunals, which convicted Nazi leaders for war crimes and crimes against peace. But when it came time to vote, this invocation was revealed to be completely meaningless. Slotkin voted to hand Trump the resources to pursue his military adventure against Venezuela…
There’s a time and a place for everything refraining from voting on election day is not a good time or place. You want to help get other parties in motion? Now’s the time. Abstaining your vote doesn’t do shit but help the least popular policies come to fruition every single time.
I didn’t abstain from voting so you’re welcome. I like how you have no argument against helping slow walk fascism to the US other than being patronizing and assuming I didn’t vote. The least you could do is not parrot decades of American lesser evil propaganda that has been the dominant voting culture while the US has been regressing, maybe take a critical long term look at that.