Space Force and midterms share stage as Trump signs Pentagon policy bill

Defense News: U.S. President Donald Trump signed the $716 billion defense policy bill for fiscal 2019 into law at the Army’s Fort Drum in New York on Monday — making personal pitches for Republican candidates and his controversial Space Force proposal.

At a giant ceremony in an aircraft hangar, Trump called out specifics in the National Defense Authorization Act, such as the setting of military pay raise at 2.6 percent starting next January, its additions of 15,600 more troops to the armed services’ overall end strength, and a laundry list of added aircraft and ship purchases above what the White House requested.

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