For Immediate Release
June 14, 2024
Contact: Athina Lawson
WASHINGTON — Speaker Johnson released the following statement after the House passed H.R. 8070, Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025.
“As we confront increasingly hostile threats from Communist China, Russia, and Iran, we must provide our military with the all the tools they need to defend our nation and deter our enemies. This year’s NDAA will refocus our military on its core mission of defending America and its interests across the globe, fund the deployment of the National Guard to the southwest border, expedite innovation and reduce the acquisition timeline for new weaponry, support our allies, and strengthen our nuclear posture and missile defense programs.
“This legislation also reinforces our commitment to America’s brave men and women in uniform, and their families, by making landmark investments in their quality of life. I’m proud that we’re providing significant pay increases to our servicemembers, reducing barriers to employment for military spouses, and improving military housing and access to childcare.”
The FY25 NDAA will:
- Provide junior enlisted servicemembers with a 19.5% pay raise.
- Fully fund the deployment of National Guard at the southwest border to intercept illegal aliens and drugs.
- Prevent Chinese espionage in our military, supply chains, and research institutions.
- Expand U.S.-Israel military exercises and fully fund cooperative missile defense programs.
- Increase funding for U.S. defense initiatives in the Indo-Pacific to bolster Taiwan’s defense and support Indo-Pacific allies.
- Save $30 billion by cutting inefficient programs, obsolete weapons, and bloated Pentagon bureaucracy.
- Cut $4.3 billion in programs that do not meet requirements.
- Require promotions to be based on merit.
- End affirmative action at service academies.
- Abolish the DEI bureaucracy.
Read more about the FY25 NDAA HERE.
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