Senate passes mammoth annual defense policy bill

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Source: The Hill

10/09/25 9:46 PM ET


The Senate late Thursday approved its massive annual defense policy bill as the U.S. government remains shut down. The GOP-led chamber approved the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) 70-20, which funds the U.S. military at $924.7 billion in fiscal year 2026. The vote came after lawmakers reached a deal earlier in the day to unlock the stalled legislation.

The bill’s passage allows the House and Senate armed services committees to begin the sometimes arduous conference process, during which lawmakers hammer out a compromise between each chambers’ version of the legislation. The House version of the NDAA, passed last month, has a much lower topline at nearly $893 billion.

The NDAA had come to the Senate floor in early September but saw little movement until Thursday morning. Action on the bill was stalled as all 100 senators must agree to hold votes on amendments, with several sticking points causing a handful of lawmakers to halt the process.

But Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) secured an agreement to vote on 17 stand-alone amendments and a package of nearly 50 less controversial amendments.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5548582-senate-passes-defense-bill/

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1. Thats a "defense" budget of a country hellbent on complete global domination. It's revoltingly large

and as with any extremely large government expenditure it will be MASSIVLY wasteful, probably 30% scraped off the top of that cake. And in the end, with these repukes, it's eventual usage will be on US because WE are the biggest enemy of this regime today.

FF!!!

[Mr. Sparkle]

2. The defense industry has the best lobbyists in Washington, and it shows

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3. Just one problem maybe

Congress has to appropriate the funds somehow, whether it be on an actual Defense appropriations act (which would authorize new starts) or a continuing resolution (which would allow only the continuation of existing efforts). I don't know if the House would have to be called back into session in order for its House Armed Services Committee, and the House's subcommittee on Defense appropriations, to start working on reconciling both the authorization and appropriation bills of the respective chambers.