The Home early on Friday accredited laws allocating roughly $832 billion in funding for protection packages for fiscal yr 2026, simply weeks after Republicans accredited a separate $150 billion plan to advance President Trump’s protection priorities.
The GOP-led chamber accredited the invoice 221-209, principally alongside get together strains.
The measure marks solely the second appropriations invoice that Republicans have been in a position to cross for 2026, after GOP appropriators stated the hassle to cross Trump’s tax and spending cuts megabill dominated the get together’s focus over the previous few months.
The invoice handed Thursday would increase funding for lively, reserve, and Nationwide Guard navy personnel by $6.6 billion above present ranges, to a complete of $189 billion. It additionally permits for a rise of three.8 % in fundamental pay for navy personnel that may take impact starting in January.
It requires $174 billion for procurement, up $6.5 billion from present ranges, and would supply $283 billion for operation and upkeep, or a roughly $7 billion lower beneath 2025 ranges.
The invoice additionally consists of about $148 billion for analysis, growth, take a look at and analysis, in addition to boosts for Protection Division well being packages and abroad humanitarian, catastrophe, and civic help packages.
The invoice comes after Republicans greenlit extra protection {dollars} as a part of Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” earlier this month.
That plan referred to as for $25 billion to fund Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile protection system, with billions extra geared toward objects like shipbuilding and the maritime industrial base, munitions and nuclear deterrence.
Democrats have risen in sharp opposition to the general protection appropriations plan, which additionally seeks to codify Trump’s actions concentrating on variety, fairness, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, advance prohibitions for funding for abortion-related journey, and block funds for gender-affirming surgical procedures.
Nonetheless, the get together additionally managed to safe some adjustments throughout consideration within the Home Appropriations Committee coping with latest controversies on the Protection Division underneath the Trump administration.
One measure was geared toward blocking armed forces from being deployed for regulation enforcement and one other modification that was later adopted sought to ban transmission of categorized data over unsecured networks.
