The House Armed Services Committee has released the full text of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2026 [SEE TEXT HERE]. The massive bill consists of 3,086 pages, making the fiscal year 2026 NDAA longer than the manuscript of War and Peace. Most people will never read it, so a 24-page Summary Version is Here.
The FY 2026 NDAA authorizes $892.6B for defense, which includes $153B for procurement, $142B for Research and Development, and $235B for military personnel. The legislation: Codifies 15 Trump EOs on military reform, border security, and DEI elimination. Boosts shipbuilding, aircraft, munitions, funds Taiwan aid and Israel programs, reforms acquisitions, enhances border support including $900M for counter-narcotic operations and includes a 3.8% pay raise and quality-of-life improvements.
There is a $400 million authorization for Ukraine support, however, the amount is ‘authorized’ not ‘appropriated’ – which would have to come in a separate spending bill.
Other Ukraine-Related Provisions (No Specific Funding). These sections emphasize oversight, reporting, and strategic support but do not authorize new funding:
SEC. 1244 (Military Intelligence Support for Ukraine): Directs the provision of military intelligence to Ukraine but without dollar figures.
SEC. 1245 (Report Relating to Allied and Partner Support to Ukraine): Requires the Secretary of Defense to report on U.S. and allied contributions, including unobligated balances in the USAI account and plans for using funds to bolster Ukraine’s defense. Covers bilateral aid, Jumpstart/PURL initiatives, and deterrence against Russia.
SEC. 1246–1250: Broader provisions on NATO’s eastern flank, Baltic security, U.S. basing/training in NATO countries, and European deterrence reports. These indirectly support Ukraine via enhanced regional posture but lack Ukraine-specific funding.
No other sections in the amendment (e.g., those on Indo-Pacific, cyber, or appropriations for unrelated programs) mention Ukraine funding. The total direct authorization for Ukraine in FY 2026 appears to be $400 million under USAI, building on prior years’ initiatives. This is an authorization bill, so final funding levels depend on the appropriations process and conference reconciliation between House and Senate versions.
The work to find out all the things sneaked in by the uniparty to screw American Citizens begins.
Paging Senator Proxmire…pick up on line 4547…oh wait…he is in a better place…
“In September 2022, President Biden, while speaking at a White House conference, asked, “Where’s Jackie?” in reference to Representative Jackie Walorski, an Indiana congresswoman who had died in a car crash the previous month.”
Was just reminiscing on “The Golden Fleece Award”….About Bribem,
I remember that!
There shouldn’t be 1¢ of funding for
ANY NATION
Other then America
And each funding line item
Should be accompanied by a profit center that will pay that debt down
By creating uSA Jobs
That’s it
That’s the Memorandum of Understanding
100%!
No $$ to any nation unless we have a signed treaty which has to be approved by congressional vote.
No! No money to any nations! Stop sending money and troops overseas. Keep them here!
there is no money given
hemce the smile in the article
russia is needed to use against the nazis again ( this time EU).
hence timing after elections , and your enemy choosing the antirussia narrative once hillary and obamas server was exposed via benghazi
You obviously have not served in the military or if you did you learned nothing.
Ask our fighter pilots or the plant managers for F-35’s in Forth Worth TX about the amount of technology improvements we get from Israel in the cockpit and in weapons delivery systems. What America receives back from Israel is multiples of the small amounts we give them.
Those are facts – deal with them.
Trump and Hegseth are 100% on board with this and deeply understand this and so do our pilots.
Did you vote for Kamala”?
Is that really you Nadler………
Ask any Fighter pilot just how safe they feel
in the cockpit knowing that there are any
Israeli parts in their plane….😳😳😬💥💥
Or any of our military troops using any equipment
or parts Israel has their hands on, or could have infiltrated
the supply chain.
That goes for our LEOs too.🤷♀️🤷♀️
Video also in article…..
Ex-Mossad Head: We’ve ‘Boobytrapped And Manipulated’ Equipment in ‘All Countries You Can Imagine‘
Last I heard only 40% of F-35s are combat ready.
At $100million apiece that kinda sucks.
Bricks with wings.
This is my one exception to funding other countries. Israel is a true friend. Who would come to our defense if we are attacked. I don’t see Ukraine or the EU. No way, no how.
You may have an easier time hilighting the sections that DON’T screw over American citizens.
One way to stop the theft would be to change the election laws by allowing only registered voters in the district or state in which they reside. That would keep the price down to include non nerdy lawyers.
edit “registered voters to contribute
Some kind of guardrails preventing AI or drone intelligence gathering, from violating citizens privacy through the Constitution’s 4th Amendment, might be useful.
I think even authorization of $400 million is an indication that President Trump is willing to continue to send money to Ukraine.
We’ll see which Republicans grab that amount and push it towards Ukraine.
$400 million for Ukraine? Is our country insane? I don’t want one dollar of my money going to Ukraine. They have scammed enough already. Especially since we now know, as if we didn’t before, that Ukraine is a corrupt country. Shut off the spigot, send them home and, like the old song says, “Hit the road Jack and don’t you come back no more.”
And don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
This explains why half the hyper cars in Dubai all have Ukraine license plates.
I disagree. Leaving it where it has to be separate amendment is a good thing and doesn’t allocate that $400 m must be given.
Potus Trump doesn’t have to give FUK raine time of day.He eventually will walk away from EUCaliphate and ZEL
I am sooo stealing FUK raine….LOL
Prob the only way to get it approved
No, I think it gives him options for negotiation. I don’t expect another penny for Ukraine or based on its present leadership/form.
400mil, that’s just a couple of extra bathr to the comedian
One question: does it sneak in the “AI amnesty” ban on regulation by States, like they attempted to put into the “BBB”?
does AI have to follow privacy laws?, since its not a human
medical record surfing is already in progress of inplementation
The 15 PDJT EOs and 30 PDJT legislative requests codified looks really good. I can see how those things can have a lot of long term benefits for Americans, especially the homeland defense, nuclear energy and border security items.
Always happy to see the hard work of President Trump being codified into law.
“Relieved” is the word I’d use.
I think I’m more in the “cautiously encouraged” camp…… 😎
It’s a start anyway, GB…on an afternoon’s reflection, I believe I’ll join you 😎👍🏻
A pity that the American electorate is being trained by the media, at the provocation of the Establishment, to think only in the short term. The short term can be demagogued through exaggeration and outright lies so keeping the collective mind there, in the near term, is a manic obsession of the powers that be. Perspective, and the sunlight that comes with it, is to the Establishment as garlic is to a vampire.
The media for example, is now worried about the “affordability” of things under Trump, though they couldn’t have cared less under four years of the Biden regime making things so unaffordable. In fact, they were quick to parrot the line then that any feeling of unaffordability was only in our imagination, unpatriotic even. It’s like the homeless – a convenient cudgel if the situation can somehow be blamed on Republicans, but one that magically disappears when Democrats are in charge.
All that being said, this NDAA is a good step. One would almost think we’re actually trying to save the country. 😉
J
It will still need to get through the RINO-dominated Senate
I await the full activation of two comments recently made in the media.
First: It was “reported” that President Trump will withdraw support from the Ukraine if this current effort does not result in an agreement. implication being it is now on the heads of the Ukraine and EU. This “Ukraine Support Line” seems to be an indication the President is serious this time.
There were reports that the US is drawing down assets, redeploying them away from NATO. These are likely the augmentation forces sent to NATO by JoeBama Biden’s Auto-Pen in 2022, as the Trump Lead US realigns (at least until January 2028) US defense focus to the Americas and Asia (you know the PROMISED shift to the East OBAMA and BIDEN never implemented).
That brings us to the second media report that seems to have slipped into the background for now.
Second: NATO has been informed that by 2028 the EU members of NATO are to take the lead in everything NATO, forces, command, financing, et al. As the US assumes “support” role as there is no viable requiring the US to be the lead defending the EU. The article even pointed out the material, financial and technological advantages the EU has over their boogieman Russia.
As stated above, President Trump has already started the draw down. Now let’s see if future defense budgets reflect the same. This new budget seems to reflect a start.
With this new defense appropriations proposal … the reactions from Congress will give a good indicator.
Without active forever wars that required wounded be evacuated to Germany for treatment,
Will we start reducing our vast footprint in Germany?
Can we trust Ursula Fond of Lying, that is a question…
NO.
Let me rephrase that……HELL, NO!!
I am wondering when his patience will run out…and is it aligned with the idea of ‘walking away’ from a deal…when enough time becomes a ‘waste of time’?
Doc, thanks for the info / analysis.
Let the NATO banksters buy stuff from us, but we should not give anything away.
We must always bear in mind that Trump is Handcuffed by a razor thin majority of Republican Senators, many of whom are traitorous, grifting RINOs.
The only strength he has is so-called “popular support,” by us, which is under continual vicious assault by the traitorous public relations arm of the democrats (aka National Media).
This isn’t Reagan’s Republican Party……
American Voters gave President Trump strong majorities of Senators and Representatives. Governors, too.
The Uni-Party, however, gave President Trump razor-thin majorities using Venezuelan Voting Machines pioneered by Fidel Castro. And now they plan to “lose” the Mid-Terms.
Fidel essentially founded Smartmatic/ Dominion CheatWare–which is now owned by Uni-Party Republicans. Perfect. No wonder Obama had a secret meeting with Castro just before he died.
And that is why President Trump is smoking them.
Rest in the Vine: Why Venezuela? A: Cartel del Sol and Castro’s Voting Machines
The voting machines are bad, but they are the low hanging fruit. The election fraud is due to dirty voter rolls and mail in voting, which go hand in hand with the machines. The Supreme Court cases addressing whether votes can be counted after election day is important also.
The voting machines need to be eliminated, mail in voting prohibited, except for military personnel stationed overseas, and voter rolls cleaned up. Voter rolls have voters whose residence is the local Walmart, 7-11 or UPS mailbox center. There was a case after the 2020 elections of a voter in California who had been voting for 20 years using a college dorm as their ‘residence’. Voter rolls have dead people, voters who have moved also. The importance of voter roll fraud is illustrated by the DOJ’s fight to get voter rolls from states, especially the blue states.
There are a hundred ways to cheat and they’re using all of them–because “Republicans” help them.
I was surprised to hear Harmeet Dillon say that only four states have voluntarily provided their voter rolls.
Even if they are all red states that leaves a lot of Republican states behaving like Dems.
What’s that all about?
President Trump is smart enough not to smoke, and hopefully, smart enough to stay out of Venezuela/Cuba.
The uniparty likes to regime change, but does not do it well
Venezuela and Cuba brought Communism to Venezuela with the damn machines over the will of the people. I followed it on the interwebs with Chavez then Maduro. Cuba sent in fighters they called hornets to prop up Maduro, at least. Millions went to the streets after Maduro won and the jackbooted thugs rounded them up and beat them to death in prisons. They absolutely went into college classrooms and dragged out students who objected to Communism and either beat them until they changed their minds or disappeared them.
Now Islam has a strong presence in VZ and they truly are coming directly here very quickly.
I so hope this is true. They plan to lose the mid-terms sounds correct to me. It can only be done through the machines reliably though they will fool around with all the other methods too. It is 90% brought up all the the time “the President always loses in the mid-terms guaranteed”.
At least PDJT’s ‘overwhelm the opposition’ approach – in barely 11 months no less – has them scrambling for some tiny foothold in an attempt to hold onto their ill-gotten power. President Trump is light years ahead of any opposition, the man hardly sleeps as he sees this as ‘giving back’ to an America he loves, and it energizes him. His goal is to see a strong America and wants all American’s to do well, which We The People can’t when under the rule of those who wish us to return to King George England that we fought to extricate ourselves moons ago.
“When America’s ‘enemy within’ (h/t Savage) is going down in flames…employ the Newsom/Bass approach and shut off the water.
Longer than War and Peace, Sundance?
3086 pages written in Government Legal Speak?
I think someone has just found the cure for insomnia!
I think Elon had a good idea — put a Grock AI on it and ask what the heck is in the crap sandwich. They put the good stuff on the outside and most of the K-street rubbish in the middle where nobody looks. Then Congress gives 48 hours to read and vote on said crap sandwich which is how all the junk spending gets through. Two trillion in deficit spending is insane!
“eastern flank” is such weird phrasing, I mean there is no other “flank” for the west Asian peninsulas.
Yup, no more viking hordes to attack from the sea. Besides they’d also be NATO now.
Any to defend the Southern Flank?
Or is current invasion still policy?
The Adversary’s job title is lawyer. His minions are known as bureaucrats. And they all lie continuously.
If you really want to reward servicemembers, don’t give them a raise, eliminate federal income tax on active duty pay/allowances instead.
It’s a big shell game – the govt pays servicemembers, who turn around and pay federal income tax on that money. Imagine how many IRS agents could be eliminated if 1.3M taxpayers suddenly disappeared from the tax rolls?
I worked for the Federal Government for about a decade in the late 1980’s into the 90’s. Every single time we got a salary COLA (Cost Of Living Adjustment) to compensate for inflation, our Gov provided health insurance would go up by nearly the same amount. It was a scam and total BS. You didn’t get a raise unless you were promoted, the COLAs went straight to the insurance companies.
Next year’s insurance premium rise (14%) will be covered by my retirement cola of 2% and my Soc Sec cola of 2.8%
Pretty much the same here in CA state government. And, each time you got a raise the amount the unions automatically took from your new “raise” went up too, as did all the withholding. It was not unusual to actually end up bringing home less than before the “raise”.
I recall when Grey Davis was CA governor that the teacher’s union was demanding a significant pay raise and Davis offered instead to exempt them from the state income tax…in perpetuity. They rejected the offer and took a modest raise instead. Their reasoning was that they didn’t want to appear as to ‘not paying their fair share’.
“fair share” …. SPIT!
I don’t remember Grey Davis being governor of CA. I remember that he ran for the office but lost to Arnold Schwarzenegger.
I didn’t include federal workers because politicians rarely if ever crow about championing raises for federal workers. They do, however, climb to the highest mountaintops and announce their everlasting and unquestionable support for those in uniform (especially around campaign time).
Tax the feds and give uniformed military a break.
I thought having to file/pay federal income tax on money I got from the federal govt was not only a stupid shell game but a big source of stress, since I was deployed all the time and had to file from long distance with my wife for many years.
55% of my Social Security increase for next year is being taken by my Supplemental Insurance rate increase.
Heck, Medicare increase was 9.8% so much for the extra SS money.
If anything increases 10% every year, that means it doubles in about ten years.
(Speaking of inflation.)
OD. Helpful hint . Rule of 72. 72 ÷ by 10%. Will double in 7.2 years.
Pray and help others
They do exactly the same thing with Social Security. A friend said, “We get a cost of living addition to our checks this year, isn’t that great?” (She is a newbie now getting SS on her exhusbands work record in addition to her teacher’s retirement pay.) I replied, “Don’t worry you will just pay that much more in Medicare premiums”.
I was born a wrench and over the years became a computer dude.
Building automation.
Made a good living but never understood money.
Retired in 2007 with three small retirement streams that in total let me enjoy life.
Past few years been tougher and tougher just to get by.
Looked at an online inflation calculator and to my horror and enlightenment found my purchasing power has been exactly cut in half. It’s so cute when SS send me a note telling me about my COLA. (imagine in your head many thousands words of invective here)
We get our insurance thru wife’s job. Not looking toward that mess when she retires…
I guess this old dog will have to go back to some kind of work come spring. !@#$%^&*()
Same thing now and in the past with Social Security and the yearly COLA ‘raise.’
Knock,Knock…..Hi, we’re from the government and we’re here to help..F U Over!
I admit I’ve only read thru the first 2,000 pages (insert /s) So …..has “the House” codified anything regarding DOGE’s
findings and the MASSIVE FRAUD of pretty much every program the government runs?
I’m happy about the parts I have read but why did our VSGPDJT have Elon and friends expose ALL the fraud if almost nothing is done about it. From what I’ve read the House has pulled funding from PBS, NPR and a little bit else.
As the lady on the old Wendy’s commercial would say, “Where’s the beef?!!
The IRS doesn’t waste a minute looking at active duty soldiers’ pay. The IRS only looks at people or businesses who they believe they can extract more money from.
Not true … when I was stationed in Germany, the IRS AUDITED my return in 1979 and tried to suck more money from me in the form of a tax bill sent before I even had a chance to answer the questions in the Audit.
I managed to satisfactorily answer the questions in the Audit … but the wording of the Tax Bill sent indicated I was GUILTY and that I could stop the audit process by paying the fine I obviously OWED.
You were a smart one keeping receipts trust me they thought they could you just had bases covered.
Found on the DINArvets website forum. Sounds so good it must be true. [notice the date of the article, maybe the Senile Joe Biden fixed the crookedness.]
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By Stephen Dinan – The Washington Times – Wednesday, May 6, 2015<
The IRS refused to fire most of its own employees found to be cheating on their taxes — and in some cases even quickly turned around and promoted them within the year, according to an audit released Wednesday.
In about 60 percent of cases of “willful violations,” IRS managers found mitigating circumstances and refused to fire the employees, even though the law calls for that penalty. In some of those cases, the managers didn’t even document why they had overridden the penalty, said Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George.
……… “Given its critical role in federal tax administration, the IRS must ensure that its employees comply with the tax law in order to maintain the public’s confidence,” Mr. George said. “Willful violation of the law by IRS employees should not be taken lightly, and the IRS commissioner should fully document decisions made to retain employees whom management has proposed be terminated.”
From 2004 to 2013, the IRS identified nearly 130,000 suspected cases of tax violations by its own employees and concluded about 10 percent of those were actual violations. Mr. George said the agency did a good job of spotting those issues.
Of those 13,000 cases, 1,580 were deemed to be intentional cheaters, and they were sent to managers for discipline. But in 60 percent of the cases, the managers refused to fire the employees.
Yes, I remember that.
Shakedown!
They always hope you’ll just pay the fine. Any bureaucracy wants to to intimidate and take as much as possible forever and ever AMEN.
False. I’ve had some ‘splainin’ to do a couple times over my military career. YMMV.
Allowances generally are not taxed. I was always stationed in a “military treatment facility” catchment area; never paid a cent for any medical or dental or insurance. But I guess it isn’t as good if you don’t have an MTF and have to use Tricare.
Regardless, if your only income is W-2 military pay I guess that could work, but that seems like a small group. You never “disappear from the tax rolls”. You might not have to file a return, but a sea of paper returns about you (W-2, 1099, 1098, etc) continuously roll into IRS.
Is there a summary of earmarks?
I don’t want one more penny/deficit dollar going to Ukraine for anything. I’m done with all aid and assistance going anywhere outside our borders unless it’s to eliminate the illegal drugs still pouring through our borders or get rid of terrorists and criminal illegals dumped in a 3rd world country. Including all illegals, fake refugees etc…time to take care of our own citizens and get ourselves and future generations out of debt!
Stop all Foreign aid. Improve America infrastructure (Electrical grids, Roads, Bridges), Education, Medicare, Social Security, and delete income tax & IRS…bill
its well spent
until our top became loyal to europes bullshit.
now its spent to aid whatever migrant utopia they envision.
If Hegseth was being honest about the return to the “Monroe Doctrine” per comments made over the weekend, wouldn’t that justify repatriating the $ trillions in equipment and soldiers we have across the globe and redeploying them here at home (or closer by)? Do we need more planes, warships, tanks, etc if that were really the plan?
Time is not kind to any of us, and that includes our weapons of war. We don’t necessarily need more planes, warships, and tanks, but we do need to continuously update and replace the fleet as it ages. How much we need to spend on that long term maintenance program will always be a subject for debate, as it should be.
The 2026 NDAA does include appropriations for another Arleigh Burke destroyer. Granted once the bidding is completed on the contract, then steel for a new hull can be cut. Not likely for the destroyer to be joining the fleet before 2028-2029. It is probable that Ingalls Shipbuildling of Mississippi is going to win that contract over Bath Iron Works.
A more pressing issue for the Navy is a backlog of maintenance and repairs for the rest of the fleet. This is a significant issue with a bottleneck being enough dry docks and associated repair facilities to get ahead of the repair/refit curve. Ditto having skilled shipbuilders and tradesmen to do the work efficiently.
There was an article a few weeks back about the horrible last of ship building capabilities in the US. We can lay a fraction of the keels that China can. South Korea and Japan have many times our capacity. If Honda can build automotive manufacturing plants here, could they, or could South Korea invest in US drydocks and shipyards, to our mutual benefit?
horrible LACK …….damned spell check
I would hope so.
South Korea and Japan have become very successful with favorable trade policies in prior years. Some of which was derivative of offshoring from the USA but I digress.
We also need the rest of the supply chains restored. Everything from steel, electrical equipment, tooling and dies, mining & smelting, etc. The more of those critical supply chains we can onshore the better off we’ll be.
OT, but I was talking with a former co-worker at the airplane factory in St. Louis yesterday. We both were laid off when Cheney cancelled the A-12 contract. He went to work for Ingalls and was telling me how they build ships upside down, turn them over, then connect all the pipes, etc You all probably know that but I was just amazed, had no idea that was how they did it. I knew he was retired Navy but he said he was Navy air, not Navy water, and was one of the ones who took off and landed on the ships. I worked beside him for several years and he never mentioned that. There were many retired military at MDC at the time. Thanks for letting me blather.
Blather on, 3XALADY! What you may think of as trivia is very informative for some of us who like the nuances of how stuff gets built. Thanks for the story.
I think the F-18 production line closes in 2028, unless the NDAA authorizes some more. We lost 3 at sea last year (1 blue-on-blue shootdown, 1 rolled out the hanger in a missile-evading turn by the ship, 1 went over the side when arresting gear failed).
It’s been common for a while now to build ships in sections that can be moved around, and then connect the sections together.
B-52 enters the chat room.
Chances are that grandpa Buff will still be flying when the B-21’s are retired in the future.
Some points –
-“Unleashing American drone dominance” – is that a reference to Don Jr.’s obscure drone company? (that was “awarded” a $620 million contract recently)
-Doubling down on “Military Green New Deal” – DoD and national security strategists (under both parties) have framed climate as a national security risk. Interested to see where this lands.
-He’s really leaning into the Golden Dome for America. Nuclear modernization, restrictions on reducing ICBMs or alert levels, creation of a rapid nuclear capabilities program… feels like escalation to me.
Honestly, I don’t see any of this happening. The branding, the Trump name all over it – this feels more like campaign stuff for MAGA, IMO.
Uke war has kille tanks.tanks are out and are being destroyed at will by 5k dollar drones.
Drones have changed the battlefield. I’m waiting for the Optimus Prime warbots.
The National Security Strategy 2025 document released last week removes climate change as a security threat.
ANY more money sent to the Ukranian rathole is TOO MUCH! I see disaster on the horizon for the 2026 midterms if PDJT doesn’t return to s strict AMERICA FIRST agenda.
The disaster should be in the midterm PRIMARIES for all RINO GOP that have been slow-walking and stalling Trumps agenda. THEY STILL HAVEN’T REPEALED OBAMACARE AS EVERY SWINGING RICHARD OF THEM PROMISED!!!!!
“Patient we must be, my Precious”, Smeagol says. (aka the RINO) They still haven’t stolen enough money from us after the Plandemic, Ukraine and Bite Me’s Green New death spiral.
Any more money to ANY country is too much!
Period.
🇺🇸🇺🇸America First—and only!🇺🇸🇺🇸
Keep an eye on the RINOs….
They will be the one’s wielding the knives….
Reposting, did you see this, which is over my paygrade….:
“The legislation also requires the U.S. to retain the position of Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), NATO’s top military post, codifying into statute a role traditionally held by an American general.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/congress-moves-block-pentagon-from-cutting-us-troops-europe-south-korea
Bring home our troops and make an EO to send in the clowns from CongrASS to take their place. Oh what a difference we would see.
I could see NATO reorganizing to downgrade SACEUR/SHAPE HQ. There would still be EUCOM though regardless. It was previously announced the rotational brigade that was in Romania will not be replaced, so down to a rotational brigade in Poland and the combat aviation, airborne, cavalry, and sustainment brigades stationed in Europe.
Ask Julius Caesar how that works.
I didn’t see the part about spying on Americans being illegal and any agent caught doing so would be sent to prison, did you?
your revolution has went full circle. it revolved 360 degrees to why it started. it did a full revolution ( around in a circle back to ground zero).
$400M may be the negotiated price to our proxies to sign a treaty
Interesting thought
Baksheesh.
Too much unsupervised money still. R&d is going to include biolabs, yes?
Development of Biolabs and mass surveillance and psychological warfare … never to be used against we the people of course.
How likely is it that Spoiler-Rat McConnell is NOT sharpening his knives over this in the Senate.
No money for Ukraine.
On the bright side of things, eliminating Diversity Equity and Inclusion completely in the military is worth very much. Putting into law DOGE reforms and many executive orders is wonderful given that our time is limited by the midterms.
It should read Department of War instead of Defense.
While giving 400 million for Ukranian corruption and maintaining support for the Baltic warmonger chihuahuas is a pity, it beats the 300 Billion the Democrats showered them with.
I wonder how they came up with that amount. In the grand scheme of things it sounds like pocket change.
Concur!
Came across this over at Faux…I wonder about the excerpt…and Nato…and supreme commander…and how it all ties in:
“The legislation also requires the U.S. to retain the position of Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), NATO’s top military post, codifying into statute a role traditionally held by an American general.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/congress-moves-block-pentagon-from-cutting-us-troops-europe-south-korea
I hoped that the USA would remove itself from NATO and that NATO would disappear. There is no reason whatsoever to keep all that going let alone be mandated to have it led by the USA. Same with South Korea. Get our guys out of there.
No way should we be spending billions on keeping our troops in these places and have any involvement whatsoever anymore with troops on the ground in those countries.
If the EU and South Korea need help sometime in the future they can hire the USA to come help or buy our tech or buy our weapons on an as per incident need. Consultations too. Pay for them when these countries need them, not us paying for a permanent force on site.
Oh well, wishful thinking I guess. Much more complicated than what we know probably.
NATO could have – should have – either been radically modified after 1991 or allowed to disappear.
The threat posed by the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact had vanished.
As for South Korea -and Japan – and Taiwan – IF they so chose to – how long would it take all three to go nuclear?
6 months – 1 year, tops?
THAT action would certainly put a dent in any aggressive plans by Chy-na – if North Korea can ensure its survival (as horrible as its government is) by going nuclear – wouldn’t the same by true of
South Korea
Japan
Taiwan???
Ukraine related funding emphasizes oversight. CONgress and accountability/oversight is an oxymoron.
Must have meant definitions 2 and 3.
noun
Read the summary, looked good until I saw the construction section allowing Design/Build. This process has been a disaster (IMHO) in the private sector. Corrupt to the core, “Bad projects get buried” with no external oversight during design and construction.
Speaking from 40 years of experience….
People need to understand the enormity of GSA controlled properties nationwide.
“The General Services Administration (GSA) owns and leases over 363 million square feet of space in 8,397 buildings in more than 2,200 communities nationwide”
https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate/gsa-properties
We are talking billions in wasted costs and energy use annually, plus substandard IEQ conditions that negatively impact occupant productivity.
GSA has nothing to do with DoD/W. At one time they owned the Pentagon AKA FOB#1 but DoD took it over years ago as part of the renovation project.
How about ZERO for Z-bagman and his congressional money laundering whores?
No money for Ukraine, Europe needs to own this scam.
Human effort is never wasted, for even imperfect actions become steps toward light when we respond with wisdom, patience, and love
“restore American strength at home and abroad, and bring peace and stability to our world”
• “remain the world’s most scientifically and technologically advanced nation”
1. “A strategy must evaluate, sort, and prioritize… The purpose of foreign policy is the protection of core national interests.”
2. “Strength is the best deterrent… Strength can enable us to achieve peace.”
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3. “America’s founders… made clear that all human beings possess God-given equal natural rights.”
4. “Bolster our society’s cultural health.”
1. “Promoting partnerships… exchanging academic ideas, technical expertise, research, and cultural understanding.”
2. “Citizen-responsive governance… equal representation of all ethnic groups and respect for religious freedom.”
3. “Cultural resource… sacred sites… treaty resources… cultural heritage.”
Better understanding leads to progress . Working together, we build a stronger future.
After reading the shortened summary of this 3000+ page bill there is 1.6 Billion being cut from “Climate Change Issues” within the DOD. Would like to see how that money has been spent, stolen, or wasted in the past. 1.6 Billion is a huge sum of money to be allocated to pure fiction.
I want to see accountability, unfortunately we do not prosecute politicians or anyone else in the good ole boy network so I will probably never see that in my lifetime.
They and their buds will work hard to keep you from getting your wish.
You mean you didn’t see the windmill powered tanks and fighters?
Just purchased one dozen jumbo size eggs at Meijer in Adrian, Michigan for $2.39. Same item was $6.00 to $7.00 during the Biden fiasco. It is not a Trump affordability crisis – it is the leftovers from Joe Biden. It took time to create the crisis and it will take time to fix it – and Trump will.
If we just just keep Democrats out of the way, everything will be just fine. Just put them back into the now closed mental hospitals from whence they came. F Democrats.
The inflation reduction act caused all the damage. When you flood the country with “Fiat Money” you will drive inflation sky high, and devalue our dollar even faster.
That caused a lot of the damage. The attack on energy production also caused a lot. As did all the handouts to the illegals. As a matter of fact I can’t think of one thing the democrats did that helped fight inflation. It’s almost like high inflation was part of their agenda. Ya think?
The 24 page summary probably reads like very good news.
The 3000 page behemoth that will actually get passed will most certainly contain all manner of land mines and booby traps, designed to blow up our individual liberty.
This is the worst kind of deceit from the RepubliCon wing of the UniParty.
They have to pass it so they can see what’s in it. Where have I heard that before?
Skepticism is healthy, but wisdom asks us to judge the full truth when it appears, not the fears we project before it arrives
Wisdom involves using intelligence plus lessons learned from previous experiences to come to a logical, non-pretending conclusion.
That process applied to this situation leads to exactly one possible conclusion-the one I stated.
Well it’s not into the double digit billions of dollars!!! So that might be some progress!!!??? Grind the war down by grinding down funding!!! No bullets, no missiles no war!!! Praise the Lord for President Trump our Peacemaker!!!
They codified a whopping 15 executive orders ?
Wow have they done this country a favor /s
Did the bran done puppet, auto pen codify anything ?
hmmmm…
I do not know
$400 million for Ukraine vs $400 BILLION under Biden.
A 99.9% DECREASE.
Not tired of winning.
400B Under Biden?
Where in the world did you come up with
that figure?
I can come up with about half…and that is maybe
an overstatement.🤔
And even half…is too much that was given.
Zero would be better…and that goes for all countries.
🇺🇸🇺🇸America First 🇺🇸🇺🇸
$400 million “not appropriated” dollars too many!!!! There should not be $1 with Ukraine‘s name attached to it.
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Thank you, Sundance!
John Quincy Adams:
“She(US) will recommend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign Independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force. The frontlet upon her brow would no longer beam with the ineffable splendor of Freedom and Independence; but in its stead would soon be substituted an Imperial Diadem, flashing in false and tarnished lustre the murky radiance of dominion and power.
She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.”
IF only we had listened….if only.
Suggested Constitutional Amendment:
“No Bill presented before the Congress may consist of more than four thousand words.”
You can do the math to estimate how many “pages” that is.
How about no bill can take more than 3 hours to be read and understood by an average US high school graduate?
Need you ask why President Trump is not walking away from Ukraine. This NDAA from Congress will not let him.
It looks like $400 million for 2026 and another $400 million for 2027.
&%@*.
Then there is what isn’t…
Only 15 billion in DOGE cuts and I didn’t see a complete audit of the black hole where billions just disappeared without a paper trail, sure. I’m grateful for any DOGE cuts Congress will approve and elimination of funds for the dei garbage. I know it’s only one department in the government, next up?
Not surprising we continue to funnel money to the Ukrainians, while Americans suffer the consequences.
That aircraft carrier in the image. It “looks” like the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) but the bow looks very strange to me. I get there is some camera angle and distance issues at play here, but I’m accustomed to seeing the two horns on the bow which are not there. I also see a CIWS on the target (the tower where all of the high ranking officers operate) which is something I’m not accustomed to seeing there. Things have changed I’m quite sure… my own ship also had the horns removed preventing me from recognizing it easily but the boxy structure is a unique signature of the Enterprise.
Believe it is a WASP class LHD amphibious ship.
MTG has already declared she is a firm “no” on the NDAA.
Did you notice the withholding of 25% of Hegseth’s “expenses” unless he releases all video evidence of what they claim was “a double tap” war crime?
ok, so does this mean Congress has finally codified some of Trump’s EO’s?