The house on Friday approved the legislation, which was financed for defense programs for the 2026 financial year, only a few weeks after the Republicans provided a separate plan of 150 billion US dollars to promote President Trump’s defense priorities in the amount of around 832 billion dollars.
The chamber guided by the GOP approved the invoice 221-209, mainly according to party lines. Five Democrats voted for the legislation, while three Republicans against it.
The measure only marks the second draft law that the Republicans could say goodbye to in 2026 after GOP’s adults dominate the party in recent months.
The legislation adopted on Thursday would enhance the financing for the military personnel for lively, reserve and national guard by $ 6.6 billion above the current level, to a total of $ 189 billion. It also enables an enhance of 3.8 percent of the basic wages for military personnel that will take effect from January.
It requires $ 174 billion for procurement, an enhance of $ 6.5 billion from the current level and would offer 283 billion US dollars for operation and maintenance or a decrease of around $ 7 billion below 2025 level.
The legislation also includes around 148 billion US dollars for research, development, test and evaluation as well as boosts for health programs by the Ministry of Defense as well as for humanitarians, disaster and civil aid programs in overseas.
The draft law takes place after the Republicans at the beginning of this month as part of Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” additional defense dollar as part of Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill”.
This plan called for 25 billion US dollars to finance Trump’s “Golden Dome” rocket defense system, with billions more aiming at objects such as shipbuilding and maritime industrial nation, ammunition and nuclear deterrence.
The Democrats have risen in a sturdy resistance to the overall plan of defense events, which also tries to codify Trump’s actions against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), to advance bans for the financing of abortion trips and to block funds for gender -known operations.
However, the party also managed to make some changes during the examination in the Committee of the House Appropriations, which dealt with the recent controversy of the Ministry of Defense under the Trump administration.
A measure aimed to prevent the armed forces on it later adopted tried to ban the transmission of classified information about unsecured networks.
