What Happened
Defense Spending Bill Omits Key Trump Era Initiatives
The House Armed Services Committee has released a draft of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, which allocates $1.15 trillion in baseline defense spending. However, the Pentagon has requested $1.5 trillion, with $350 billion in reconciliation funds to support key initiatives such as Golden Dome, shipbuilding, and a munitions build-up. HASC Chairman Mike Rogers is confident that Congress will approve the reconciliation funds, but the committee has not reconfigured the discretionary budget to account for the possibility of the additional measure failing, as reported by Defense One.