The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is a legislative vehicle providing for the Department of Defense (DoD) to carry out its mission. The first NDAA was passed in 1961 and is reauthorized every year. It sets the recommended budgets for DoD programs and the policies for how money can be spent.
>>Important note on how Congress works: While the NDAA sets budgets for DoD programs, a separate appropriations bill is needed to actually grant the money to fund those programs. (A program can be authorized, but not have funding.) The appropriations process to grant money to fund government programs is one of the most important policy battles each year in Congress.
The NDAA is supposed to enable the DoD to effectively deter and fight foreign threats to the United States. But under DoD Secretary Lloyd Austin, the DoD has become increasingly political—distracting it from its duty to defend America. Last year, Secretary Austin issued a memo outlining a roadmap for taxpayer funds to be used for paid time off and travel for service members and their families to receive elective abortions.
The result of this policy is clear—your taxpayer dollars are being used to pay for abortions. This is not a longstanding policy of the DoD, and we should return to the decades long norm of not funding abortions with DoD money.
When unelected bureaucrats abuse their authority, it is the duty of elected representatives to hold them accountable. That is why Congress must use the NDAA to rescind any funding authority being used by the DoD for Secretary Austin’s pro-abortion policy.
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