reporter: this means for the first time in 70 years there s going to be a new branch of the us military. the senate voted overwhelmingly to pass a $738 billion defense policy bill for donald trump s space for us. it has to the president s desk and he said he will sign it immediately. the new space force is going to be housed within the air force similar to how the marine corps resides within the navy and that is different from what donald trump originally proposed. much of the personnel within the air force currently work on space will simply be transferred to the new space force but the white house says it still achieve the goals of prioritizing space within the pentagon and uniting the different space missions spread across the military at a time when russia, china and other countries are becoming increasingly competitive and competitive in space. one of the most important
years there s going to be a new branch of the u.s. military. he senate voted overwhelmingly to pass a $738 billion defense policy bill fellow creates president trump space force. it had so the president s desk and he said he will sign it immediately. the new space force is going to be housed within the air force, similar to how the marine corps resides within the navy. that is different from what president trump had originally proposed. much of the personnel within the air force are simply going to be transferred to this new space force. the white house says that it still achieves the goals of prioritizing space within the pentagon and uniting all the different space missions spread across the military at a time when russia and china and other countries are becoming increasingly competitive. it s going to be certainly one of the most important
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significant changes requested by democrats on workers rights and prescription drug prices. the president did suffer a setback that same day on his border wall though. the federal judge in texas blocked the plan to pay for the wall with $3.6 billion in military funds. then, let me take you over to wednesday on the calendar. that s when the house passed a 300 or rather a $738 billion military bill. it included the creation of trump s space force, but it also included on that very list, paid parental leave for more than 2 million federal workers. that was a priority for democrats. then on thursday, lawmakers from both parties said that they had reached an agreement in principle to the end of the year. and that means congress voted on $1.37 trillion in federal spending next week during the same time as the impeachment vote. that s going to be happening on the same day and the same time
without fingersticks. ask your doctor to write a prescription for the freestyle libre 14 day system. you can do it without fingersticks. learn more at freestylelibre.us welcome back. as the house passed the annual bill on defense policy yesterday, with $738 billion from the pentagon, the bill also established a space force, and introduced 12 weeks of paid parental leave for more than two million federal workers. democratic lawmakers had included provisions that did not end up in the final version of the bill. such as to overturn restrictions on transgender troops, and to quote restrict the president from waging war against iran without congressional approval. the defense bill passed after weeks of negotiations, between the house, and the senate, and despite numerous objections by progressive lawmakers. and in a win for president