Fox News Politics Newsletter: Senate sends $901B defense bill to Trump

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Senate sends $901 billion defense bill to Trump after clashes over boat strike in D.C. airspace

The Senate sent a massive defense package to the president Donald Trump office on Wednesday, checking off one of the last remaining items of the year in the process.

Lawmakers came together to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a nearly $901 billion package packed with defense policy that unlocks funding for many of the Trump administration’s national defense priorities.

The measure passed through the Senate on a bipartisan 77-20 vote. It’s a perpetual legislative practice undertaken by lawmakers, and it usually comes and goes with little fanfare, given that congress usually wraps up the year with it…Read more.

The white house

Lawyers are in trouble: Company behind climate lawsuits faces Justice Department referral after court finds misconduct ‘verging on criminal level’

People march as they participate in a strike to demand action on the global climate crisis on September 20, 2019 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Enhance the child: Billionaire investor Ray Dalio backs Trump’s children’s investment accounts, joins Michael Dell

The silent treatment: Trump remains on the sidelines as the GOP falters in its efforts to unify on the health care plan

Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) arrives for the Senate Republican leadership election at the US Capitol on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC (Kevin Deitch/Getty Images)

Victory cycle: Trump touts accomplishments since taking office in primetime speech

Majority mathematics: Trump’s push to ‘stand down’ gains new momentum for GOP as funding deadline approaches

Global stage

“Heed our warnings”: Israeli Netanyahu calls on Western governments to take action to combat anti-Semitism: “Heed our warnings”

A woman kneels and prays at a floral memorial for the victims of the shooting outside the Bondi Pavilion on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Monday, December 15, 2025, the day after the shooting. (Mark Baker/AP Photo)

The anxiety deepened: A wave of terrorist plots around the world raises alarm about the West’s growing weakness

Capitol Hill

Obama’s wallet trap: Watch: Doctor legislator blames Obamacare for raising health care costs

Rep. Mariannette Miller Meeks speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on December 16, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

What are they hiding?Senate Republicans block Schiff’s push to release footage of controversial Caribbean strike

Endangered species: The House Republican who voted to impeach Trump in 2021 will not seek re-election

Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Washington, at a hearing on Capitol Hill, July 25, 2019, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevila/Getty Images)

“Oh, no”: Australian Oil Company rejects briefing on boat strike as a ‘joke’

All over America

“Historic action”: Maryland is considering slavery reparations after lawmakers overrode the Democratic governor’s veto

Maryland Governor Wes Moore holds a press conference in October 2025 outside the State House in Annapolis, Maryland. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

“Honest answer”The head of the Federal Aviation Administration says air traffic control towers will never reach full staffing levels under the current system

“I’m blue collar”: Blue-collar businessman jumps into race to replace MTG, portraying himself as the opposite of controversial GOP

Businessman and former county commissioner Brian Stover has launched a Republican campaign to replace Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. (Stover campaign)

Kamala runs away: Harris dodges 2028 question after report says she’s ‘stepping into’ a run

Campaign escalates: The Border Patrol commander returns to Chicago as agents spread pepper balls in the migrant neighborhood

Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino walks alongside his agents after they arrested a person in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood on December 16. (Anthony Vasquez/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

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