Senators have submitted more than 900 amendments to the fiscal 2022 National Defense Authorization Bill in efforts to improve the nation’s security—and, in some cases, to tie unrelated priorities to the must-pass bill.
While most of the proposed amendments relate to the Defense Department, including the withdrawal from Afghanistan, the supply chain’s reliance on China, and whether troops should be forced to get the COVID-19 vaccine, some lawmakers are trying to add unrelated changes, including ideas to end the opioid epidemic and new initiatives within the Department of Health and Human Services.
