US President Donald Trump signed the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law Thursday, completing the passage of the largest military spending bill in US history—$901 billion, or over $1 trillion when combined with supplemental funding passed earlier this year.
The Senate voted 77-20 on Wednesday to pass the bill. The Democratic leadership, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and Minority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois, voted for the bill. They were joined by Senators Mark Kelly of Arizona and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, both of whom released a video last month calling on military personnel to disobey illegal orders—as Trump was sending the US military on a murder spree off the coast of Latin America.
Citing Trump’s statements about using troops to shoot protesters in America, Slotkin invoked the legacy of the Nuremberg tribunals, which convicted Nazi leaders for war crimes and crimes against peace. But when it came time to vote, this invocation was revealed to be completely meaningless. Slotkin voted to hand Trump the resources to pursue his military adventure against Venezuela…
Voting doesn’t make a difference at this level, because where it did make a difference, they failed to vote.
There’s only one solution the US has to get out of the hole it’s in. Progressives must vote out the problem Democrats in primaries, which means they all have to vote in that, then vote those people in, come the elections. It’s the only way the US can get where it needs to be to make the changes socialists want. The US doesn’t have the systems in place like ranked choice to do things differently.
You don’t have a choice. You’ve got to vote your way out of it, if you get another chance.
The only other way is the one some think they want but they actually really don’t, which is not likely to work the way they want anyway.