One of the widest-ranging bills of the U.S. Congress's
legislative year, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 2021 (NDAA), is nearing the finish line as
both the House and Senate overwhelmingly approved the bill last
week. Now the NDAA is on its way to President Trump's desk
for his signature (or potential veto—more on that below). As
with most NDAAs in recent years, Congress has included a host of
sanctions and similar measures, with this year's bill
targeting Turkey's purchase of a Russian air defense missile
system, Russian energy export pipelines, and Chinese Military
Companies and other activities in the United States.
Because its focus is to fund the U.S. military, the NDAA is
considered a must-pass bill each year, allowing Congress to
incorporate a number of priority national security-related measures
that otherwise failed to become law. Therefore, while the NDAA is
quite long (over 4,500 pages!), we've analyzed the
bill's sanctions
