After House and Senate negotiators reached an agreement Monday on a massive annual military spending measure, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ro Khanna condemned the bipartisan compromise as “a bill of astonishing moral cowardice” that will hand the Pentagon $738 billion in 2020 while doing nothing to end U.S. complicity in Saudi Arabia’s assault on Yemen.

“There is no pressing reason for Congress to shower Trump, his Saudi friends, and the Pentagon contractors of the military-industrial complex with this $738-billion taxpayer giveaway right now.” 
—Sen. Bernie Sanders, Rep. Ro Khanna

“Congress should have used this National Defense Authorization Act to stop our endless wars,” Sanders and Khanna said in a joint statement late Monday. “Instead, this bill does nothing to rein in out-of-control military spending, prevent unconstitutional war against Iran, limit the poisoning of Americans’ drinking water, or end the obscenity of innocent children in Yemen being killed by U.S. bombs.”

The two progressives noted that the tens of billions of dollars in additional Pentagon spending under the 2020 NDAA would be “more than enough to fund tuition-free public college across America.”

Sanders and Khanna added:

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As Common Dreams reported last month, Sanders and Khanna led an effort to include amendments to the NDAA that would cut off U.S. support for Saudi Arabia’s bombings in Yemen, which have fueled the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.

“This is nothing more than a massive giveaway to the Saudi and Emirati governments, corporate interests, and the military-industrial complex.”
—Kate Kizer, Win Without War

But during negotiations with the Senate, the House agreed to strike from the final NDAA a provision that would have suspended the sale of U.S. air-to-ground munitions to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for one year. No other amendments to end U.S. complicity in Yemen were included in the measure, which could receive a vote in the House as soon as Wednesday.