US EditionSenate Passes Military Funding Bill, Sends It to Trump
The $900.6 billion bill includes a 3.8% military pay raise, increased shipbuilding, and counters China while demanding Pentagon transparency on controversial Caribbean strikes.
- On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate passed the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act authorizing $900.6 billion for fiscal 2026, sending the 3,086-page final bill to President Donald Trump after the U.S. House of Representatives approved it on Dec. 10.
- By adopting FORGED-style acquisition changes, lawmakers said the bill modernizes defense by boosting drone manufacturing, shipbuilding and low-cost weapons while cutting red tape in the Pentagon.
- The bill conditions funding and oversight by demanding the Pentagon release unedited video and orders for the Sept. 2 "double-tap" strike and ties a 25% travel-budget cut to compliance by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
- Lawmakers inserted limits that bar reducing U.S. troops in Europe below 76,000 without allied consultation, protect the Supreme Allied Commander-Europe post, and require Pentagon notification to Congress when senior leaders are fired.
- Combined with $156 billion in the GOP's One Big Beautiful Bill Act this July, the package pushes spending into the trillions and removed collective bargaining, DEI, climate, and TRICARE IVF provisions.
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Majority of Democrats Join Senate GOP to Pass Trump’s $900 Billion Pentagon Wish List
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Borderland lawmakers respond to $901B defense policy bill
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) -- Federal lawmakers who represent El Paso and Southern New Mexico are reacting to the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The bill, a historic $901 billion bipartisan act, was passed by the Senate 70-20 on Wednesday and sent to President Donald Trump's desk, awaiting signature. Some of the [...]
Majority of Democrats Join Senate GOP to Pass Trump's $900 Billion Pentagon Wish List
The majority of Senate Democrats joined most Republicans to pass a record military $900 billion spending bill full of Trump demands. Sen. Wyden, who voted no, said it "fails to include guardrails against Donald Trump and Hegseth’s authoritarian abuses."
NDAA, adopted annually by both Congressrooms with a certain degree of consensus between Democrats and Republicans, presents the areas on which the United States should, according to the elections, concentrate its defence efforts for the next year.The 2026 version, over 3,000 pages, presupposes a total annual budget of over 900 billion dollars, an increase of $5 billion over the previous year.The bill passed from Senate with 77 votes for and 20 a…
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