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Obama Signs National Defense Authorization Act for 2016 – White House

© AFP 2023 / Brendan SMIALOWSKIUS President Barack Obama speaks on the phone in the Oval Office of the White House
US President Barack Obama speaks on the phone in the Oval Office of the White House - Sputnik International
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President Barack Obama signed the 2016 US defense budget bill into law, the White House said in a press release.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — On November 10, the US Senate passed the $607 billion defense budget bill that includes provisions opposing closure of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, and envisions $300 million in military assistance to Ukraine.

“On Wednesday, November 25, 2015, the President [Obama] signed into law… the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016,” the release stated on Wednesday.

The bill also includes spending cuts, which impact the train-end-equip program for the Syrian rebels that the United States says it has put in place to combat the Islamic State terror group.

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