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Defense &
National Security

Defense &
National Security

The Big Story

House sends megabill to Trump's desk with $150B in military spending

The “big, beautiful bill” is heading to President Trump’s desk and it includes $150 billion for the Defense Department.

© Greg Nash

House Republicans passed the core of Trump’s domestic policy agenda Thursday afternoon — including sweeping tax cuts, a crackdown on immigration, a boost for fossil fuels and huge cuts to Medicaid — overcoming months of bitter infighting on Capitol Hill to deliver what could be the defining legislation of Trump’s second term.

The 218-214 vote came together after more than a year of intense planning by GOP lawmakers, weeks of scrambling to reconcile the conflicting visions among House and Senate Republicans, and days of last-minute lobbying to cajole holdouts in both chambers to get on board.

The bill gives $150 billion in new defense spending for priorities like shipbuilding, the “Golden Dome” missile defense project and backfilling U.S. precision missiles and munitions. Another $150 billion will go towards a border wall, immigration enforcement and deportations.

Of the total dollars for defense, $113 billion is mandatory funding for the military. When combined with the Pentagon's $848 billion budget request, released last week, that pushes military spending to the highest it's been in recent history, close to $1 trillion.

The vote followed a marathon, historic speech by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who commandeered the chamber for 8 hours and 44 minutes to rail against the GOP’s megabill and delay the final vote — surpassing the previous record of 8 hours and 32 minutes set by then-House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in 2021 as a way to delay action on the Democrats’ social spending and climate package.

In the end, two Republicans, Reps. Thomas Massie (Ky.) and

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