Congress approves billions for spy agencies in 2027.
H.R. 9624 — Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 · Filed by Rick Crawford (R-AR) · Introduced Jul 9, 2026 · Reported out
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What it does
This bill gives money to U.S. intelligence agencies for 2027. It approves $591 million for the Director of National Intelligence's office. It approves $514 million for CIA worker retirement benefits. Most of the money amounts are kept secret. Only Congress and the President can see them.
Who it affects
Intelligence agencies get the money. Congress can see the secret budget details. The public cannot see most spending amounts.
One thing to notice
The bill keeps the true cost of most intelligence work hidden from the public.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Jul 9, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 9, 2026 — Referred to House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence”
- Jul 20, 2026 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Jul 20, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
7 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 7 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $4,730,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 9 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 86% of bills with any report.
Rick Crawford, who sponsored the bill, received $587,791 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Microsoft Corporation — $2,690,000 in 1 report
- Blue Origin, LLC — $580,000 in 1 report
- L3harris Technologies Inc — $530,000 in 1 report
- Planet Labs Pbc — $400,000 in 1 report
- Shift5 — $250,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- intelligence agencies — Government offices that gather and study secret information about threats to the country.
- Director of National Intelligence — The top official who oversees all U.S. intelligence agencies and reports to the President.
- secret — Information that the government keeps hidden from the public for national security reasons.
- 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 (4,523 characters) on Jul 24, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,522 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 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-22.
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