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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 6024. Ms. HIRONO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
SEC. . SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING FISCAL YEAR 2027
FUNDING DISPARITIES AND DOMESTIC NEEDS.
(a) Findings.—The Senate finds the following:
(1) The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
2027 reported by the Committee on Armed Services of the
Senate authorizes an unprecedented $1,150,000,000,000 for
national defense programs, reinforcing a continuous and
disproportionate escalation in military spending.
(2) The United States is currently facing a severe
affordability crisis, with millions of people in the United
States and working families struggling with the skyrocketing
costs of basic necessities, including food, housing, and
healthcare.
(3) On July 4, 2025, the enactment of the Act entitled “An
Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H.
Con. Res. 14”, approved July 4, 2025 (Public Law 119-21; 139
Stat. 72) (commonly known as, and in this section referred to
as, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”), mandated deep and
devastating structural cuts to essential nondefense safety
net programs.
(4) The cuts and administrative hurdles mandated by the One
Big Beautiful Bill Act are projected to slash over
$1,000,000,000,000 in funding for the Medicaid program under
title XIX of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.)
(in this section referred to as “Medicaid”) and the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148; 124
Stat. 119) over the next decade, ripping health care coverage
away from 15,000,000 people in the United States, and putting
over 750 hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics at risk of
closure.
(5) Concurrently, sweeping rollbacks and funding
restrictions have severely impacted access to the
supplemental nutrition assistance program established under
the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.)
(in this section referred to as “SNAP”), a vital lifeline
that millions of women and children depend on to prevent food
insecurity and hunger.
(6) National security depends not only on military
readiness, but also on the economic well-being, health, and
stability of the people of the United States.
(b) Sense of the Senate.—It is the sense of the Senate
that—
(1) the massive funding disparity between defense
expenditures and domestic nondefense investments for fiscal
year 2027 is unacceptable;
(2) it is unconscionable to authorize over
$1,100,000,000,000 in defense spending while at the same time
forcing deep cuts to programs like SNAP and Medicaid that
millions of people in the United States rely on to survive;
(3) this spending gap will only grow with the proposed
plans for an additional $350,000,000,000 of defense spending
through budget reconciliation and upwards of $80,000,000,000
or more in supplemental defense spending requested to cover
operational shortfalls due to the unauthorized war with Iran;
and
(4) Congress must reject this imbalanced approach to
Federal spending and commit to a budget strategy that
balances national security obligations with the urgent,
fundamental human needs of everyday people in the United
States.