Fight brews over Pentagon's push to counter extremists ...

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https://www.rollcall.com/2022/07/22/fight-brews-over-pentagons-push-to-counter-extremists/

Fight brews over Pentagon’s push to counter extremists
Democrats plot an effort to remove NDAA report language on halting anti-extremism programs in the armed services

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By John M Donnelly
Posted July 22, 2022 at 10:19am
Democrats in both chambers are vowing to resist GOP attempts to halt Defense Department training aimed at countering extremist groups’ attempts to influence servicemembers.

The Senate Armed Services Committee report accompanying its fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act calls on the Pentagon to “immediately” halt the counter-extremism programs. The committee approved the bill in June, but the legislative text and the report weren’t made public until Monday evening.

The language has no legal effect, but its adoption shows the political strength of conservative arguments that even modest amounts of training to equip military personnel to resist extremist recruiting is a distraction from military preparedness.

Every Democrat on the Senate committee voted against the provision, and every Republican voted for it. Sen. Angus King, an independent from Maine who caucuses with Democrats, sided with the GOP on this vote, giving it a 14-12 majority.

King has not commented on his vote in response to requests from CQ Roll Call.

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