Defense

Hse Sub. Members – Hearings – Markups |  Sen Sub. Members – Hearings

FY 2025 House Action:
Subcomm: 6/5/24, approved bill:  R-Stmt | Text | R-Summ | D-Stmt | D-Summ | D-FactSheet.
Full Comm: 6/13/24: approved 34-25 | Text | R-Stmt | Rpt | R-Summ | D-Stmt | D-Summ | D-FactSheet
Floor: 6/28/24: passed DEF 217-198:  R-Stmt | Text-HR 8774 | Rpt | R-Summ | D-Stmt | D-Summ | D-FactSheet | Veto Threat

FY 2025 Senate Action:
Subcomm:  
Full Comm: 8/1: Sen. Approps. Comm. approved DEF 28-0: D-Stmt | D-Summ | Text | Adopted Amendments | Rpt | R-Stmt
Floor: 

FY 2025 Action on Conference Report:
Agreement:  
House Passage:  
Senate Passage:  
President: 

FY 2024 House Defense Appropriations Action:
Subcomm: 6/15: subcomm approved – voice vote | Text | Summ | R-Stmt | D-Stmt
Full Comm: 6/22: Hse full comm approved Defense 34-24 | Text | Summ | Rpt | R-Stmt | D-Stmt
Floor:  9/28: House passed the Defense Appropriations bill (HR 4365) 218-210 | Text | Summ | Rpt | R-Stmt | D-Stmt

FY 2024 Senate Defense Appropriations Action:
Subcomm: no subcomm. markup
Full Comm: 7/27: comm approved 27-1 | Text | Rpt | Summ | Amend | D-Stmt | R-Stmt
Floor:

FY 2024 Action on Conference Report:
Agreement:  Bill Text | Jt. Stmt. Division A – Defense | Hse-R-Sum | Hse-D-Sum | Sen-D-Sum
House Passage: Passed Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (amendment to HR 2882), 286-134
Senate Passage:  Passed Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (amendment to HR 2882), 74-24
President: President will sign

FY 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)
Defense is one of the few areas where the authorization bill is annual — developed by the House Armed Services Committee and Senate Armed Services Committee — and provides funding levels for programs and projects with specificity. Appropriations.com therefore tracks the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).:

FY 2025 House NDAA Action:
Full Comm: 5/22/24 – H.R. 8070 ordered reported 57-1
Floor: 6/14/24 – H.R. 8070 passed 217-199

FY 2025 Senate NDAA Action:
Full Comm:  6/14/24 – NDAA ordered reported 22-3
Floor: 

FY 2025 Conference Action on NDAA:
Conf. Report: 
House Approval: 
Senate Approval: 
President’s Approval:  

Note: There are sometimes vigorous policy and funding disagreements between the defense authorizing and appropriations committees, which sometimes are settled only by which bill — the authorizing bill or the appropriations bill — is enacted later in time.

Administration Defense Requests:
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The Defense bill funds the following agencies:
Department of Defense (See also Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies)
-Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DOD)
-Defense Finance and Accounting Service
-Defense Intelligence Agency (DOD)
-Defense Investigative Service (DOD)
-Defense Logistics Agency (DOD)
-Department of the Air Force
-Department of the Army
-Department of the Navy
–Marine Corps
-Missile Defense Agency (DOD)
-National Geospatial and Intelligence Agency (DOD)
-National Guard and Reserve Components (DOD)
-National Security Agency (DOD)
-U.S. Court of Military Appeals (DOD)
Uniformed Services University of the Health Services
Central Intelligence Agency
Defense Security and Cooperation Agency
National Reconnaissance Office
North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
Uniformed Services University of the Health Services

In most respects House and Senate appropriations subcommittee jurisdictions are parallel.

Historical Database – Defense: 

Open a document below, press the Ctrl + F buttons, and enter relevant terms to locate the bill or report provisions you need.

Omnibus or Consolidated:  all (or most) regular appropriations bills packaged together.
Minibus:  several regular appropriations bills packaged together.
CR:  continues agency funding at a particular level–often the previous year–without detailed appropriations.
Cromnibus:  a CR for some agencies and detailed appropriations for others.

Note on Joint Statements:  In many cases, (House-Senate) joint explanatory statements on omnibus appropriations bills are printed only in the Congressional Record–which is impossible to read on mobile devices.  In those cases, we have uploaded House Rules Committee PDFs. 

Please note:  When you click on the links below, the bill your browser opens may not be what you expect, because the appropriations language you need has been included by the Committee in a bill with an unrelated title.  For example, LHHS appropriations might be included in a bill titled Mil-Con-VA.  Simply proceed to the relevant “title” or “division” of the bill.

Defense: Nonpartisan Reports on Major Issues

• LINK HERE to all CBO Reports on the Defense Budget. 
• Jan. 3, 2024: CBO – The 2024 Outlook for Navy Shipbuilding
• CRS Reports on National Security Topics
• CRS Reports on Intelligence and Related Topics
• CRS Reports on Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control
• CRS Reports on Conventional Weapons Systems
• CBO: Long-Term Implications of Future Years Defense Program (back to 2003)
• CBO: Analysis of the Navy’s Shipbuilding Plan (back to Apr 2005)
• CBO: Projected Costs of U.S. Nuclear Forces (back to Dec 2013)
• NATO: Article 5 Obligations – Background
• SIPRI:  U.S. Defense Spending compared to other nations