The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act Is Released

The National Defense Authorization Act is what funds our military, but way too much of the bill always gives outrageous amounts of money to defense contractors. Much of the "dark money" is for projects that are classified, so there's no way to track their spending on them. This is where most of our taxpayer money goes, but politicians on both sides refuse to cut the spending. It infuriates me that we spend so much on our military industrial complex, yet they say we can't afford universal health care like most civilized countries, or afford social safety nets for people who are struggling. They also sneak hundreds of items into the must-pass bill that they know they can't get passed through the normal lawmaking process. The amount of spending in this bill each year is obscene! $900.6 BILLION dollars this year?

House Speaker Mike Johnson said, “This year’s National Defense Authorization Act helps advance President Trump and Republicans’ Peace Through Strength Agenda by codifying 15 of President Trump’s executive orders, ending woke ideology at the Pentagon, securing the border, revitalizing the defense industrial base, and restoring the warrior ethos." WTF?!?

Most lawmakers never have time to read the full document, but they vote on it anyway. Here's the full text of the bill which is 3,086 pages long.