Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, told POLITICO.
The House is also set to move forward with a compromise defense bill that doesn’t alter Section 230, according to two House Democratic aides.The president’s Twitter broadside puts Republicans in a bind as they look to maintain the support of Trump and his base heading into the Georgia runoffs next month that will determine control of the Senate.Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, put it more delicately.
While he said he understood the president’s frustrations with Section 230, it was not worth imperiling the broader defense bill.
And Senate Majority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) said his “preference†would be to pass the NDAA and then address Section 230 separately.Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), who chairs the Senate Commerce Committee, said he submitted possible legislative language to the White House on Section 230.
The top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, retiring Rep.The Section 230 push is the second time Trump has threatened to nix the defense bill this year.Over the summer, Trump promised to veto any defense legislation that would remove the names of Confederate leaders from 10 Army bases, even though provisions that would rename bases were included in both House and Senate bills with bipartisan support.
The final defense bill does include a provision that would spur the Pentagon to remove the names over a three-year period, according to an aide for SenThe Senate finally agreed Wednesday to name its slate of members to formal talks with the House on a compromise defense billEven though negotiations have been ongoing for months between the leaders of the Senate and House Armed Services committees and their staffs, the procedural move is needed to formally bring a final defense bill up for a vote