{"id":47925,"date":"2025-06-13T13:21:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T13:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2025\/06\/13\/house-appropriators-ok-rebukes-to-recent-dod-scandals-in-budget-bill\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:29:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:29:33","slug":"house-appropriators-ok-rebukes-to-recent-dod-scandals-in-budget-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/budget\/2025\/06\/13\/house-appropriators-ok-rebukes-to-recent-dod-scandals-in-budget-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"House appropriators OK rebukes to recent DOD scandals in budget bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

House Republican appropriators<\/a> agreed Thursday to several checks on recent controversial Pentagon moves in their $832 billion defense budget plan for fiscal 2026, including a ban on using any money for military personnel to conduct law enforcement duties <\/a>on U.S. soil. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the spending plan still drew significant criticism from Democratic lawmakers who objected to restrictions on abortion care for troops, insufficient funds to support Ukraine and missing budget justifications<\/a> from the administration on how hundreds of billions of dollars will be spent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding bill \u2014 which heads to the full chamber for consideration later this summer \u2014 includes a 3.8% pay raise for troops<\/a> in 2026 and plans to trim 45,000 civilian employees from the department\u2019s workforce in a cost-cutting move. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Administration officials have billed it as the first $1 trillion defense budget, pairing the appropriations request with an expected $150 billion funding boost for military programs in the Republican-backed reconciliation package winding through Congress. Without that money, the defense budget would see no increase from fiscal 2025 levels.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\t