Trump signs defense bill creating Space Force
By Rebecca Kheel - 12/20/19 08:07 PM EST
President Trump signed the annual defense policy bill Friday night, establishing his much-touted Space Force and giving federal workers 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) at a ceremony at Joint Base Andrews before leaving for Mar-a-Lago for the holidays.
The $738 billion compromise bill gave all parties something to crow about after months of negotiations between the Democratic-controlled House, the Republican-led Senate and the White House that got bogged down in debates about Trump's border wall.
Signing it also provided Trump the opportunity to tout achieving some of his top priorities at the end of a week that saw him becoming the third president in American history to be impeached.
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