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A top Senate committee is seeking to enforce President Donald Trump’s clampdown on US defense contractors’ shareholder distributions as the US military races to innovate and build cheaper weapons faster. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

A top Senate committee is seeking to enforce President Donald Trump’s clampdown on US defense contractors’ shareholder distributions as the US military races to innovate and build cheaper weapons faster. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

NEW: For two straight years, bipartisan congressional majorities have backed requiring healthcare coverage for military families' fertility treatments. Still, House conservatives managed to delete that provision from the final NDAA both years. Now the conservative pushback has begun earlier. The Senate Armed Services Committee reversed itself this week and is now opposing the coverage--which members of Congress enjoy. At a press briefing yesterday on the new Senate NDAA, they declined to answer when I asked what the committee did on this. cc: @SenDuckworth @RepSaraJacobs rollcall.com/2026/06/12/prio…

NDAA is likely headed to the House floor the week before July 4. House Rules is eyeing a meeting the week of June 29 and set a June 18 deadline for lawmakers to file amendments.

THUNE tells @aidanwilliamstv he assumes Jay Clayton can get confirmed quickly

NEW: The Senate Armed Services Committee fulfilled President Donald Trump's and Pete Hegseth's wish to have a "Department of War." Senior @SASCDems member @timkaine called it "a juvenile move that sadly describes the reality of a President who has abandoned meaningful diplomacy."

Tim Kaine, who voted against the NDAA in SASC, says the defense bill renames the Pentagon to the Department of War. Means War Dept rebrand is a step closer to becoming legally permanent after it was included in the House NDAA.

NEW: Senate Armed Services Cmte approves $1.15 trillion defense policy bill that blocks US troop cuts in Europe, authorizes $750 million for Ukraine assistance through 2029 and doesn't quite back the new Trump battleship procurement.

BREAKING: The Senate Armed Services Committee just completed its closed-door markup of the #fy27NDAA, @SenTuberville tells me. Details soon on CQ.com.

New: The Pentagon has finally transmitted its plan for spending $400 million in already appropriated Ukraine aid to the Hill. But Senate Dems are not happy with it. Sen. Coons called it “dramatically insufficient." Sen. Shaheen said it didn't include money for interceptors.

Senators failed to advance a powerful spy powers tool that expires after next week as Democrats double down on their demands for President Donald Trump to reverse his pick for acting national intelligence director. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

House Panel Approves Defense Bill Ramping Up Key Munitions news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

The House Armed Services Committee late Thursday night narrowly backed the formal renaming of the Department of Defense to the Department of War, handing a victory to President Donald Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

Armed Services Dems I talked to after the markup said they couldn’t vote for a defense bill with a $1T price tag and no guardrails on Iran. This is probably the most partisan vote I’ve seen since 2019, when nearly all HASC Republicans opposed a Dem-led NDAA.

Round of applause and standing ovation for Chair Rogers ahead of final NDAA vote. This is Rogers’ last NDAA markup as chairman of the committee, absent a waiver.

HASC votes 44-12 to advance the $1.15 trillion 2027 defense authorization bill after narrowly adopting an amendment to rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War

Adam Smith mocks the notion that the name War Department "strikes fear in the heart of adversaries." "I wish our adversaries were that stupid," Smith says, "'Oh my God! The War Department! They must be serious now!'"

Don Norcross is up now with his amendment to protect collective bargaining for DoD employees. It was included in the NDAA last year but dropped from the final bill due to opposition from Republicans.

He died doing what he loved: Offering and withdrawing his amendment due to a point of order against it, but still using his entire allotted time to talk about it.