•   "The Administration strongly opposes House passage of H.R. 8774…  Rather than respecting their agreement and taking the opportunity to engage in a productive, bipartisan appropriations process to build on last year’s bills, House Republicans are again wasting time with partisan bills that would result in deep cuts to law enforcement, education, housing, healthcare, consumer safety, energy programs that lower utility bills and combat climate change, and essential nutrition services. The draft bills also include numerous, partisan policy provisions with devastating consequences for the readiness and wellbeing of America’s military and their families, including harming access to reproductive healthcare, threatening the health and safety of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) Americans,

endangering marriage equality, restricting telework for Defense Department employees, including a critical retention tool for military spouses working for the Federal Government, hindering critical climate change initiatives, and preventing the Administration from promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion, which make the Nation’s military a more ready and lethal force… If the President were presented with H.R. 8774, he would veto it." Source: Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget on behalf of President Joe Biden 

•   "Beyond contentious social policy, there are other elements of this bill that I cannot support. First, the bill continues to treat climate change as if it is not happening and is not a national security threat – which we know for a fact that it is. And we’ve seen the impact of severe weather events on installations year after year – look to Guam as a recent example… Cutting climate programs harms resiliency, and we will pay for it on the back end. Second, the bill cuts the funding for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative. [F]ailure to continue funding what has been a long-standing, bipartisan initiative to support Ukraine sends a terrible signal. It will only embolden Putin. Third, the bill again limits the ability for our government to address disinformation. Our foreign adversaries use social media to spread disinformation here at home in the United States. This bill deprives the Department of their responsibility to set facts straight. This is dangerous, and it would have real national security implications here at home and abroad." Source: Rep. Betty McCollum (Democrat, Minnesota, District 4)

•   "This is another example of lawmakers trying to provide much more money to the organization than the Defense Department sought. For fiscal 2024, lawmakers appropriated $946 million for DIU, which was $842 million above its budget request." Source: Jon Harper of DefenseScoop