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Official title: Provide for appropriate limitations on military deployments, and for other purposes.
Introduced November 7, 2025 by Elissa Slotkin · Last progress November 7, 2025
The bill provides substantial, flexible funding for local public safety and gives Congress fast statutory authority to terminate domestic military and Guard deployments, trading increased legislative control and near-term public-safety resources for curtailed deliberation, potential political interference with military operations, legal uncertainty, and additional federal spending.
State and local jurisdictions, community organizations, and law enforcement receive about $900 million+ in new grants (Byrne JAG, violence-intervention, hiring grants, and an emergency assistance fund) to support equipment, training, hiring, violence reduction programs, and rapid crisis response.
Members of Congress gain a clear statutory mechanism to terminate Posse Comitatus Act exceptions and to end National Guard activations, increasing legislative oversight and control over domestic military and Guard deployments.
Faster congressional review and strict floor procedures (short committee windows and debate limits) make disapproval decisions on domestic deployments more timely and more directly accountable to elected representatives.
Taxpayers bear the more than $900 million cost, which could increase deficits or crowd out other federal spending priorities.
Expedited procedures and waived points of order may curtail deliberation and limit minority input, risking rushed or less-considered congressional decisions about complex domestic deployments and civil-military questions.
Creating a formal procedural path for Congress to block deployments could complicate or slow executive and military responses in fast-moving emergencies, hindering timely operational action.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Creates a fast-track congressional disapproval process to end Posse Comitatus exceptions or activations and provides ~$900M in FY2026 law-enforcement grants with emergency designations.
Creates a new congressional fast-track process allowing either House to force consideration and enactment of a narrowly worded "joint resolution of disapproval" to terminate statutory exceptions to the Posse Comitatus Act and to terminate activations of Federal forces called into service for domestic law-enforcement support. The bill also provides roughly $900 million in FY2026 appropriations for State and local law enforcement programs (JAG grants, community violence prevention, emergency assistance, and hiring/rehiring officers), and explicitly bars use of those funds to place Federal personnel in State or local assignments. The measure rewrites the opening language of the Posse Comitatus statute and a related active-duty activation statute to add the congressional termination mechanism and procedural rules for expedited introduction, committee referral, discharge, floor consideration, and debate limits; it includes severability language. Several appropriations are designated as emergency requirements for budget enforcement purposes.