House-Passed National Defense Legislation Codifies 15 of President Trump’s America First Executive Orders

WASHINGTON — The House-passed FY26 National Defense Authorization Act includes many crucial elements of President Trump’s Peace Through Strength agenda. In addition to modernizing our defense capabilities, instituting key quality of life improvements, and an expansion of DOD support for border security efforts, the NDAA also codifies 15 of President Trump’s executive orders related to national defense. 

“There’s 15 of President Trump’s executive orders in the bill; executive orders to end radical and wasteful government, DEI programs, reinvigorate the nuclear industrial base, unleash American drone dominance, secure American Borders, end CRT in our military schools, reform the federal hiring process and restore merit to government service among many others,” Speaker Johnson said at this week’s House Republican Leadership press conference. “The safety and security of the American people, our homeland and our troops abroad is our utmost priority. And this must-pass legislation delivers on every front.”

Executive Orders Codified in the House-Passed FY26 NDAA:

1. Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing

2. Unleashing American Energy

3. Declaring a National Energy Emergency

4. Securing Our Borders

5. Clarifying the Military’s Role in Protecting the Territorial Integrity of the United States

6. Reforming the Federal Hiring Process and Restoring Merit to Government Service

7. Declaring a National Emergency at the Southern Border

8. Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling

9. The Iron Dome for America

10. Restoring America’s Fighting Force

11. Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security

12. Reinvigorating the Nuclear Industrial Base

13. Restoring American Airspace Sovereignty

14. Unleashing American Drone Dominance

15. Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base

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