Both the Senate and the House have passed the FY24 NDAA this week, sending the package to President Biden. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) sets the policy agenda and authorizes funding for the Department of Defense each year.
The final negotiated version of the FY24 NDAA authorizes $886 billion in national defense funding, an increase of $28 billion over last year, which includes both a 5.2% pay raise for military and $300 million for extended Ukraine Security Assistance (separate from the supplemental funding request), among other provisions. The legislation does not include two controversial provisions related to abortion and transgender health care access, which were included in the House version that passed this summer. Now that the NDAA is passed, the race is on to get the 12 appropriations bills passed before the short term continuing resolutions expire in January & February.