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Pramila Jayapal slams huge Pentagon Budget increase
The Democrat Congresswoman alleged that the Pentagon has never successfully passed an audit and despite this the agency's funding continues.
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Jeffin T. Kaleekal - Thu, 11, Dec 2025
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Pramila Jayapal / Wikimedia commons
Indian origin lawmaker U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal decried the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act's (NDAA) allotment of $890 billion to the Pentagon.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Dec. 10 passed a compromise version of the 2026 NDAA, setting policy for the Pentagon that Congress hopes to pass for a 65th straight year. The $890 billion allotted to the Pentagon is more than $8 billion over Trump’s original funding request.
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Jayapal, who had unsuccessfully voted against the bill, described the funding as "exorbitant" and said, "As families across this country struggle to keep food on the table and are facing health care premiums that will be doubling or even tripling in the coming days, Republicans are showing clearly where their priorities lie."
She also noted that a fraction of this money would "restore Medicaid funding for 17 million Americans, end homelessness, pay for universal pre-k, or fund anti-poverty programs like the enhanced Child Tax Credit — things that would actually ease the cost-of-living crisis that Americans are facing."
The Democrat Congresswoman also alleged that the Pentagon has never successfully passed an audit and despite this the agency's funding continues.
Jayapal, however, extended her support to the repeal of the 1991 and 2002 Authorized Uses of Military Force (AUMF) legislation that was a part of the bill she voted against. AUMF allows the President broad authority to use military force without a formal declaration of war. Repealing of AUMF is part of the recently passed bill.
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