The House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act in a near party-line vote on Friday.

This bill, which provides the Pentagon with $886 billion for the next fiscal year, contained a number of provisions favoring the GOP's stance on a variety of social issues debates including the Pentagon's diversity and inclusion efforts, abortion policy, and transgender topics. Those amendments, which didn't garner support from Democrats as they voted on hundreds of amendments leading up to the vote, dissuaded Democrats from supporting the legislation altogether.

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Reps Adam Smith (D-WA), Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee, and Subcommittee Ranking Members Joe Courtney (D-CT), John Garamendi (D-CA), Donald Norcross (D-NJ), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Seth Moulton (D-MA), Ro Khanna (D-CA), and Andy Kim (D-NJ) announced their intention to vote against the bill, which all but Khanna voted in favor of to leave committee, on Thursday night.

"What was once an example of compromise and functioning government has become an ode to bigotry and ignorance. Attacks on reproductive rights, access to basic health care, and efforts to address our country’s history of racism and marginalization of huge swaths of our country will worsen our recruitment and retention crisis, make our military less capable, and do grievous harm to our national defense and national security," they wrote. “For these reasons, we cannot and will not vote for the NDAA as amended on the House floor.”

Republicans voted on Thursday night to include amendments on the must-pass defense legislation that effectively overruled the Department of Defense's policies regarding access to reproductive health care following the reversal of Roe v. Wade. While the Pentagon only pays for abortions in cases of rape, incest or the life of the mother is at risk, the department announced earlier this year they would reimburse service members or dependents' travel expenses should they have to go out of state.

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GOP officials have been critical of the policy for months, with Sen. Tommy Tuberville choosing to hold up approximately 260 military nominations and promotions over it.

Republicans also sought to and were able to attach amendments to the bill that ends coverage of transition surgeries and hormone treatments for transgender troops and one that blocks the department's diversity, equity and inclusion training.