Should we allocate $145.7 billion to procure new weapons systems and other equipment for military readiness efforts?

National Security and Defense
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 6157)
This bill has Passed the House of Representatives
Bill Summary

This bill provides 2019 fiscal year appropriations to the Department of Defense (DOD) for military activities, including military personnel, and research, development, test and evaluation. Sponsor: Rep. Granger, Kay [R-TX-12]
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Opponents say

• This bill should include funding for the Reconstructive Transplant Research Program, which helps with reconstructive surgery for service members injured in combat.
• This bill does more of the same instead of “aggressively going after known challenges in the space domain or significantly increasing investment in areas like undersea warfare”, which will hurt the U.S.’s competition status.

Proponents say

• This bill helps to retain female service members by establishing a retention baseline and developing ways to improve this retention - invaluable to the defense of our nation.
• By freezing the use of appropriated funds to pay for the migration of data to the cloud until further implementation plans are specified, this bill ensures the Pentagon’s future cloud migration will be safe and secure.
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