H.R. 4016 · 119th Congress · Economics and public finance
2026 Defense Appropriations Act
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
Bundled: this vote covered more than one measure.
House · Jul 18, 2025
Roll call ↗221
209
Passed the House.
Nominally single-subject: the entire Act appropriates funds for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2026 and contains no separate legislative division. The coupling is internal. Title VIII, General Provisions, attaches standalone policy riders that a member could not vote on separately. A yes on defense funding was also a yes to banning funds for gender-affirming care (Sec. 8145), for any diversity, equity, or inclusion office (Sec. 8148), for advancing Critical Race Theory (Sec. 8141), for drag events on installations or in recruiting (Sec. 8144), and for enforcing a COVID-19 vaccine requirement on servicemembers (Sec. 8136); to a religious-conscience protection on the belief that marriage is between one man and one woman (Sec. 8139); to a bar on assistance to the Azov Battalion (Sec. 8101); and to a restriction on U.S. Northern Command activity regarding Mexico (Sec. 8118). These riders ride on the must-pass funding vehicle.
Passed the House on July 18, 2025.
Latest action: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (CR S8522)
- IntroducedJun 16, 2025
- CommitteeJun 16, 2025
- Passed HouseJul 18, 2025
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- None
- House committee
- Appropriations
- Lobbying
- At least 626
- organizations named it2025 Q1 to 2026 Q3
What it does
This bill funds the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, July 18, 2025
Yea unless marked
R · House · AL-4
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
This bill funds the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026. It appropriates money account by account across military personnel, operation and maintenance, procurement, research and development, revolving funds, the defense health program, and related intelligence agencies. Military personnel pay and benefits alone run to tens of billions per service branch, including $52.5 billion for the Army and $40.1 billion for the Navy. Shipbuilding is funded at $36.9 billion, including the Columbia and Virginia class submarines and two aircraft carriers. The bill grants the Secretary of Defense authority to transfer up to $6 billion between accounts, and the Director of National Intelligence up to $1.5 billion within the National Intelligence Program. It directs $500 million to Israeli cooperative missile-defense programs and $500 million to a Taiwan Security Cooperation Initiative. Beyond funding, the bill carries a block of standing policy riders that bar the Department from spending any of this money on named activities. It prohibits funds for gender-affirming surgery or hormone therapy, for any office of diversity, equity, or inclusion, for programs that advance Critical Race Theory, for enforcing a COVID-19 vaccine requirement on servicemembers, and for drag events on installations or in recruiting. It bars funds from being used to take discriminatory action against a person for holding the belief that marriage is a union of one man and one woman. It bars spending to assist the Azov Battalion, to support the Wuhan Institute of Virology, or to fund EcoHealth Alliance. It reduces the total appropriation by $3.75 billion citing cooperation with the Department of Government Efficiency, and by a further $3 billion tied to a separate reconciliation bill, H.R. 1.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 626 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 2,100 quarterly reports filed by 102 lobbying firms and by 167 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
5 of them, in no ranking: Newspace Nexus; Blackve, Inc.; Parry Labs, LLC; Phlow Corporation; Ametrine Inc. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 621 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.