Examining House–Senate Differences in FY2026 Defense Appropriations

The House and Senate appropriations committees each approved their own versions of the Fiscal Year 2026 Department of Defense Appropriations Act in July, which means that, as lawmakers return from August recess, it is appropriations debate time.This year’s defense appropriations process has been unique on three levels. It is the first year that a reconciliation bill included defense funding, a windfall that brings final appropriations this year to over $1 trillion. FY2025 was also the first year that a defense budget was entirely funded through a continuing resolution (appropriations were left at FY2024 enacted levels). And, as legislators begin to

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