Defense bill includes Israel assistance provisions, including anti-missile programs The National Defense Authorization Act includes $600 million for missile defense programs.
House passes bill making it U.S. policy to help Israel ‘remove threats’ The U.S. House of Representatives passed a defense authorization bill that would make it U.S. policy to take “all necessary steps” to ensure Israel is able to “remove existential threats,” among them nuclear facilities in Iran.
Obama enacts new Iran sanctions, despite opposing them President Obama signed a defense funding bill that included Iran sanctions he had opposed.