Defense bill funds armed forces pay and weapons with $4 billion aid
H.R. 9495 — Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2027 · Filed by Ken Calvert (R-CA) · Introduced Jun 26, 2026 · Reported out
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What it does
This bill gives the Department of Defense about $820 billion for fiscal year 2027. It pays active-duty and reserve armed forces members. It buys weapons, ships, aircraft, and bombs. It funds defense research. The bill includes $4 billion to train foreign armed forces. It also arms them to fight terror groups.
Who it affects
Armed forces members get paid through this bill. Citizens depend on the armed forces for safety. Foreign armed forces get training and weapons. Companies that build weapons and ships get money.
One thing to notice
The Defense Secretary can send $4 billion in aid to foreign groups. Congress only gets 15 days' notice. The bill does not say what 'appropriately vetted' means.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Jun 26, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 621”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
533 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 536 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $68,513,201 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 3 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 100% of bills with any report.
Ken Calvert, who sponsored the bill, received $1,345,350 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Lockheed Martin Corporation — $4,180,000 in 1 report
- Rtx Corporation and Affiliates — $3,860,000 in 1 report
- General Motors Company — $3,460,000 in 1 report
- General Dynamics Corp — $3,420,000 in 1 report
- General Atomics — $2,320,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- vetting — Checking and approving someone or something carefully.
- armed forces — The Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard.
- fiscal year — A 12-month period used for budgeting and money tracking.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (50,012 characters) on Jun 29, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,206 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 21, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-17.
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