Speaker Johnson Statement on the FY26 NDAA

WASHINGTON - Speaker Johnson released the following statement on S. 1017, The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026.

"This year's National Defense Authorization Act helps advance President Trump and Republicans' Peace Through Strength Agenda by codifying 15 of President Trump's executive orders, ending woke ideology at the Pentagon, securing the border, revitalizing the defense industrial base, and restoring the warrior ethos.

"This legislation includes important House-passed provisions to ensure our military forces remain the most lethal in the world and can deter any adversary. It roots out Biden-era wokeism in our military and restores merit-based promotions and admissions to service academies, prohibits contracts with partisan firms, counters antisemitism, and halts harmful, unnecessary programs like CRT, DEI, and climate initiatives.

"President Trump has made clear the past few decades of investments propping up Communist China's aggression must come to an end, and this bill includes important guardrails to protect America's long-term investments, economic interests, and sensitive data.

"The NDAA builds on the landmark investments included in the Working Families Tax Cut, ensuring America has both the economic strength and the military power to deter our enemies and protect our interests worldwide. The legislation improves the livelihoods of America's brave men and women in uniform by giving them a well-deserved pay raise, and ensures our warfighters have access to the best and most innovative military technologies.

"Under President Trump, the U.S. is rebuilding strength, restoring deterrence, and proving America will not back down. President Trump and Republicans promised peace through strength. The FY26 NDAA delivers it," Speaker Johnson said.

"The FY26 NDAA delivers on President Trump's promise of peace through strength and ensures America can deter our adversaries and protect our homeland. This legislation builds on the wins from the Working Families Tax Cut - revitalizing our defense industrial base, improving our servicemembers' quality of life, and building out critical warfighting capabilities," House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rogers said. "We're also 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. I'm eager to send this to President Trump's desk so we can give our military the tools they need to remain the most ready, capable, and lethal force in the world."

The FY26 NDAA Helps Deliver Peace Through Strength:

• Provides enlisted servicemembers with a 4% pay raise.
• Expands our counter-drone defenses and new technologies.
• Advances the Golden Dome and enhances America's nuclear deterrent and new nuclear power technologies.
• Enacts guardrails to protect America's long-term investments and economic interests.
• Fully supports the deployment of National Guard and active-duty troops at the southwest border to intercept illegal aliens and drugs.
• Enhances U.S. defense initiatives in the Indo-Pacific to bolster Taiwan's defense and support Indo-Pacific allies.
• Revitalizes American shipbuilding and expands the Maritime Industrial Base.
• Strengthens U.S.-Israel military operations and cooperative missile defense programs.
• Strengthens our defense industrial base and supply chains.
• Reforms the defense acquisition process to eliminate regulatory barriers, enhance speed, and scale capacity for our Warfighters.
• Accelerates the development and delivery of space capabilities to counter Chinese and Russian nuclear arsenals and space surveillance.
• Streamlines operations by eliminating $20 billion in obsolete weapons, inefficient programs, and Pentagon bureaucracy.
• Prohibits contracts with advertising firms, like NewsGuard Technologies Inc., that blacklist conservative news sources.
• Restores merit-based promotions and admissions to service academies.
• Counters antisemitism and eliminates programs that discourage military readiness like CRT, DEI, and climate initiatives.

FY26 NDAA Bill Text, HERE.

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