People Over Pentagon Act of 2023
Official title: To reduce the amount authorized to be appropriated for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2024, and for other purposes.
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Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
People Over Pentagon Act of 2023
This bill requires the amount authorized to be appropriated for the Department of Defense (DOD) for FY2024 to be $100 billion below the FY2023 funding level.
In implementing the funding reductions, DOD must consider the recommendations in the Congressional Budget Office report titled Illustrative Options for National Defense Under a Smaller Defense Budget (October 2021).
The bill also excludes the following DOD accounts from the reductions: (1) the Defense Health Program, (2) military personnel accounts, and (3) civil service pay and benefit accounts.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1134: People Over Pentagon Act of 2023. 118th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/118-HR-1134/
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