National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025
House Bill, H.R. 5009 (NDAA FY2025)
What it did
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is the annual bill that sets Pentagon policy and spending levels. Each year it carries a line for US-Israel cooperative programs, mainly the Iron Dome, David's Sling, and Arrow missile-defense systems, and it extends the War Reserve Stockpile for Israel, the forward-positioned US arsenal that Israel draws on during wartime.
The fiscal year 2025 NDAA (H.R. 5009, sponsored by Rep. David Joyce (R-OH)) authorized about $884 billion in total and $500,000,000 ($500M) for the Israel missile-defense programs, with the stockpile extended. The House and Senate had passed different versions and then negotiated a final text. A yes vote on this House vote accepted that final text and sent it to the Senate for its own final vote.
A no vote rejected it.
The House passed it 281-140 on December 11, 2024.
At the time of this vote, about 44,805 innocent people had been murdered in Gaza, more than 17,000 of them children.
Result: Passed 281-140
Funding: $500M
At the time of this vote: ~44,805 innocent people murdered (~17,000+ young children murdered)
The humane vote: No (NAY)