Proposed $874 Billion Defense Budget Cleared for House Hearings Beginning Next Week

After nearly five months of hearings, the House Armed Forces Committee’s six subcommittees on June 13 quickly and unanimously adopted their components of the proposed $874.2 billion fiscal 2024 (FY24) national defense budget.
The next stop for the draft National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), filed as House Bill 2670, is its first hearing before the entire 59-member House Armed Services Committee on June 21.
The overall $874.2 billion budget includes $841.5 billion for the Department of Defense (DOD), an increase of nearly $26 billion, or 3 percent, over the FY23 enacted NDAA, and $32.26 billion for the Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons programs.
The Republican-led House panels essentially retained the Biden administration’s overall budget request but shifted money around within the spending plan, adding $326 million to DOD programs while trimming $386 million from Department of Energy allocations to arrive at nearly the same top-line figure….}