House and Senate negotiators on Sunday published the text of their compromise fiscal 2026 defense authorization bill, setting it up for House floor action this week.
The compromise bill’s $900.6 billion topline funding authorization number is more than $8 billion above both President Donald Trump’s request and the House-passed version. Senators will want to send the package to the president’s desk as soon as possible after the House acts.
House Armed Services Chairman Mike D. Rogers, R-Ala., praised the agreement, saying lawmakers would be “reforming the Pentagon’s broken, bureaucratic acquisition process so that our troops can quickly get the tools they need to deter our enemies, instead of waiting up to a decade while our adversary’s field new technologies within months.”
