Unlike a traditional budget, military funds from the One Big Beautiful Bill come with fewer legal strings attached for how the money is spent, prompting lawmakers to collect public pledges.
The Pentagon has until Aug. 22 to provide its own implementation plan laying out whether it will follow the committees’ recommendations, according to a Congressional notice.
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Elaine McCusker and John G. Ferrari of AEI run through some of the most important parts of the reconciliation bill, and what the Pentagon should do now.
For a period of time on Wednesday night, it appeared House Speaker Mike Johnson didn't have the GOP votes needed to move the bill forward.
The bill moved forward in a 51-50 vote that required Vice President JD Vance to make the tiebreaking vote, with Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Thom Tillis of North Carolina opposing the measure.
Selling off the low S-band "is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea," Tom Karako, director of the CSIS Missile Defense Project, told Breaking Defense today.
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"The House and Senate are very, very close in the provisions,” SASC Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., told reporters. But there are differences.
Funding contained in the bill is required for the Trump administration to hit $1 trillion in defense spending in fiscal 2026.
Some Republican defense hawks in Congress are already expressing disappointment for the plan, with Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker outright stating that the administration “is not requesting a trillion dollar budget."
The war in Ukraine, especially the lightning-fast EW struggle, has shown the value of subscription-style services for communications, L3Harris’s president of communication systems told reporters.
Aaron Mehta and Lee Ferran walk through the reconciliation process, and then discuss global international defense spending.
HASC will take up the bill on Tuesday in a marathon markup session that will allow Democrats the opportunity to amend the measure.
"We intend to get this money out the door very quickly, working with the administration," said one senior congressional official.
The House and Senate armed services committees have been directed to figure out how to spend extra defense funding, but have been given different monetary targets.