US lawmakers on Wednesday passed a sweeping defense policy bill, signaling ironclad bipartisan support for Europe and delivering a blistering repudiation of President Donald Trump's increasingly hostile posture toward NATO and America's closest allies.

The comfortable 77-20 Senate vote sends the $900 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to the White House, closing out one of Congress's few remaining rituals of cross-party cooperation even as foreign policy divisions sharpen elsewhere in Washington.

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