U.S. House Passes $1.15 Trillion Defense Bill in Near Party-Line Vote
The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed its fiscal 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in a 216-212 vote, approving a historic $1.15 trillion Pentagon budget. The bill includes a 5-7% military pay raise, an increase in active-duty force size, a mandate to rename nine southern military bases to remove Confederate honorifics, and a proposal to officially rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War. The vote was largely along party lines, with 209 Republicans in favor and 205 Democrats opposed. The bill faces significant challenges in the Senate due to deep partisan divisions over the massive budget, the ongoing Iran war (which has cost $37.5 billion to date), and aid to Israel and Ukraine. Lawmakers debated the bill's necessity versus its cost to taxpayers amid mounting national debt and an unpopular war.
Editorial responsibility
- No named human review is recorded for this page.
- Reports are grouped by semantic similarity and deterministic rules. Language models may assist titles, summaries, translation and cross-source analysis; the page itself is projected from evidence records.
- Current automated evidence projection