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Your MoneyWorkers & JobsCivil LibertiesCriminal Justice & Due ProcessEnvironmentCorporate BenefitsTargeted & Unrelated ProvisionsTransparency & AccountabilityGun LawsFunds the Pentagon (about $1 trillion) for 2027 — $22 billion for military family health care, plus a rename to the Department of War.
Your Money
Nearly $22 billion would pay civilian doctors and hospitals that treat service members and their families under TRICARE. It covers the year ending September 30, 2027.
Active-duty members who are seriously ill or badly injured could freeze and store embryos with no cap on how long. The current policy sets a time limit on that storage.
No money in the bill could pay for surgery or hormone therapy meant to change a person's sex. Troops and covered family members would pay for that care themselves.
A 2022 Pentagon policy pays travel costs and grants time off when a service member must travel for reproductive health care the military does not cover. The bill would bar money for carrying out that policy or a similar one.
Workers & Jobs
Companies holding defense contracts above $1 million could not make workers sign away the right to sue over sexual assault, harassment, or job discrimination. The Defense Secretary could waive this for a specific contract on national security grounds.
A Defense Department job could shift to a contractor only after an open competition showed the contractor costs less — by 10 percent of federal staff costs or $10 million, whichever is smaller. Bids that cut worker health insurance would get no credit.
Civil Liberties
None of this money could pay for the National Security Agency to target a U.S. person under two foreign-intelligence laws. That includes collecting the contents of their messages from phone and internet companies.
Federal agencies could not deny grants, contracts, tax breaks, or benefits to someone because they say or act on a belief that marriage is between one man and one woman. It would apply to money from this bill and from earlier spending bills.
Criminal Justice & Due Process
Military drug work would get $1.16 billion. That includes $680 million for counter-narcotics support, $305 million for the National Guard counter-drug program, and $143.7 million for drug demand reduction.
No money could move anyone held at Guantanamo Bay into the United States, or build or change a U.S. site to hold them. The bill would also bar closing the base.
Environment
Five accounts totaling about $1.16 billion would pay to clean hazardous waste, tear down unsafe buildings, and restore military sites. Sites the military used in the past would get $238.9 million of that.
The bill would provide $55.97 million toward destroying the U.S. stockpile of lethal chemical agents and munitions. The money would stay available through September 30, 2028.
At least $12 million would go to reducing environmental damage on Indian lands caused by military activities. It covers training and technical help for tribes, recording the damage, and ranking sites for cleanup.
Corporate Benefits
A Defense Department credit program would get $216 million to cover the cost of loans and loan guarantees. That backs up to $2.16 billion in lending to defense companies.
The bill would add $5.25 billion for on-site computing gear, storage, and network equipment. None of it could buy semiconductor products from banned suppliers, and no waiver would be allowed.
The bill would add $2.75 billion to speed up how new suppliers and parts get approved for military use, and to manage technical data. The stated goal is more competition among defense firms.
Software bought or built with defense money would have to use a modular design with a government-owned interface layer, kept separate from the vendor's own code. That makes it easier to switch suppliers later.
Targeted & Unrelated Provisions
Section 8160 would rewrite titles 10, 32, and 37 of federal law to replace "Department of Defense" with "Department of War" and "Secretary of Defense" with "Secretary of War." References in any other law or record would be read the same way. That is a permanent change inside a one-year funding bill.
The Pentagon could not use any past or present money to pause, cancel, or end the Next Generation Fighter, the UH-60 Blackhawk, the E-7 Wedgetail, or two missile-warning satellite programs. Their funds also could not be moved to other uses.
One billion dollars would fund a Taiwan Security Cooperation Initiative for arms, services, and military training. A second billion would replace U.S. equipment sent to Taiwan. Both stay available through September 30, 2028.
The bill sets aside $500 million for joint U.S.-Israeli missile defense work. It includes $20 million for Iron Dome, $127 million for short-range defense, and $323 million for Arrow systems.
Three named private groups would get direct grants: $30 million to the USO, $30 million to the Red Cross, and $5 million to the Fisher House Foundation for housing families near military hospitals.
Starting 180 days after passage, no money could fund Northern Command activities involving Mexico, except work tied to an executive order on the military's role in protecting U.S. territory. Unspent money would move to Southern Command. The President could keep Mexico with Northern Command by making a written determination.
No money could go to diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, offices, staff, training, or policies. The same bar covers anything that promotes critical race theory.
Transparency & Accountability
The Defense Secretary would have to post grant awards on a public website in a searchable format.
Within 60 days the Pentagon would have to give Congress a table showing the budget request, changes Congress made, and the final amount for each account. Until it arrives, money could not be moved between accounts except for an emergency.
Spending directions listed in the bill's explanatory statement and in a classified annex would have to be followed as if written into the law. The classified annex is not public, so some binding spending choices would stay hidden.
The Defense Secretary could move up to $3 billion between accounts for urgent, unforeseen needs, with budget-office approval and prompt notice to Congress. The intelligence director gets separate authority to move up to $1.5 billion.
Gun Laws
No money could be used to scrap or dispose of M-1 carbines, M-1 Garand rifles, M-14 rifles, .22 and .30 caliber rifles, or M-1911 pistols. Surplus small-arms ammunition could not be destroyed unless the Army declares it unsafe.
Surplus armor-piercing and similar center-fire rounds could not go to any private group. The exception is a firm under contract to destroy them, or to make ammunition for the military or for licensed export.
More about this bill
Military families would feel this bill first. It sets about $1 trillion in Pentagon spending for the budget year ending September 30, 2027. About $190 billion pays troops in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Space Force, Guard, and Reserve. Another $22 billion pays civilian doctors and hospitals that treat military families under TRICARE. Households with no military or defense job would see no direct change. Most of the rest buys gear and pays for daily work. Training, upkeep, and other operations get about $336 billion. Weapons buying gets about $248 billion, including $56.7 billion for Navy shipbuilding. Research and testing get about $221 billion. The total is cut by $1 billion, which the bill credits to new software and artificial intelligence. Several rules decide what military health care may pay for. No money could cover surgery or hormone therapy meant to change a person's sex. Money could not carry out a 2022 policy that pays travel costs for reproductive care. Troops who are seriously ill or hurt could store frozen embryos with no time limit. Diversity, equity, and inclusion programs would get nothing. Some parts reach well past this one year. One section rewrites federal law to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War. Another would stop Northern Command from working on Mexico 180 days after passage. That work would move to Southern Command. The bill also bars the National Security Agency from targeting Americans under two spying laws.
Congressional Summary
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2027This bill provides FY2027 appropriations to the Department of Defense (DOD) for military activities.(The bill excludes military construction, military family housing, civil works projects of the Army Corps of Engineers, and nuclear warheads, which are all included in other appropriations bills.)Within the DOD budget, the bill provides appropriations forMilitary Personnel;Operation and Maintenance;Procurement;Research, Development, Test and Evaluation; andRevolving and Management Funds.The bill provides appropriations for other DOD programs, includingthe Combat and Operational Medicine Program,the Private Sector Care Program,Chemical Agents and Munitions Destruction,Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities, andthe Office of the Inspector General.In addition, the bill provides appropriations for related agencies, including (1) the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund, and (2) the Intelligence Community Management Account.The bill also sets forth requirements and restrictions for using funds provided by this and other appropriations acts.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2026-06-26
- Date Added
- 2026-07-07
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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