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House of Representatives

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027

2026-07-21

“I want this defense bill to pass. I worked with my friend to write it. It spends a lot of taxpayer money on nuclear weapons and missile defense. It spends more money on some things and less on others. It gives more money to the Space Force. I want more money spent on many programs. I want to change how the government buys things. I want more money spent on making weapons. I want to pay our soldiers more. This bill will spend a lot of taxpayer money on many things. It will cut some programs that cost too much. I want everyone to vote yes on this big spending bill.”

Official Congressional Record

Mr. Chairman, I rise today in favor of the Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act. As the chairman of the Strategic Forces Subcommittee, I was proud to work in a bipartisan fashion along with my friend Ranking Member Seth Moulton on some of the most consequential issues to our national security. This legislation authorizes full funding to keep modernizing the Nation's nuclear forces as well as the Department of Energy's scientific and production capabilities upon which our deterrent depends. It also approves acquisition flexibility for the nuclear enterprise and refocuses statutory requirements related to plutonium pit production on the long-term need for the deterrent. We authorize significant increases for many programs that support the Golden Dome Initiative and border missile defense efforts, including space-based sensing, development of the Next-Generation Interceptor, and procurement of Standard Missile 3 interceptors. In space, we require a single official to lead the vital positioning, navigation, and timing enterprise and eliminate the current PNT bureaucracy. We also streamline redundant space acquisition organizations to build on the progress made last year to reform acquisitions. Perhaps most importantly, this bill authorizes a historic increase in the Space Force's budget. This will allow them bring online the next generation of systems necessary to fight and win in space and support new missions to address emerging threats. This bill prioritizes the industrial base, expands U.S. defense production capacity, and supports the President's request to raise all servicemembers' pay. It rebuilds depleted munition stockpiles through new authorities and saves taxpayers over $30 billion by cutting inefficient programs and government bureaucracy. I encourage all of my colleagues to vote in support of this legislation.

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