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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced November 7, 2025 by Elissa Slotkin · Last progress November 7, 2025
Creates a new congressional procedure to block exceptions that let the U.S. military operate domestically and to rescind certain activations of forces, and provides FY2026 grant funding to support state and local law enforcement with limits on how the money may be used. The bill adds a special “joint resolution of disapproval” process that lets Congress formally disapprove military use in particular domestic or listed locations, bars courts and agencies from treating legislative inaction as approval, and imposes severability protections.
Also adds a cross-reference in DoD activation law so Congress can use the same disapproval resolution to end activations, and provides new FY2026 appropriations for multiple law-enforcement grant programs (Byrne JAG, community violence intervention, emergency assistance, and hiring grants). The appropriations are designated as emergency funding and cannot be used to place Federal law-enforcement officers in state or local jurisdictions.