{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://moulton.house.gov/news/press-releases/statement-congressman-seth-moulton-key-ndaa-wins-fy26", "Statement from Congressman Seth Moulton on Key NDAA Wins for FY26", "2025-12-16", "2025", "2025-12", "Democrat", "House", "MA", "Seth Moulton", "M001196", "moulton.house.gov", "moulton", "https://moulton.house.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "December 16, 2025\n\nSALEM, MA - Last week, Congressman Moulton voted to pass the bipartisan, bicameral Fiscal Year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act. The bill includes over 20 provisions championed by Congressman Moulton, including key provisions to provide robust oversight of the Defense Department, add guardrails to prevent the politicization of the military, overhaul the defense acquisition system to make it more efficient, and reinforce America\u2019s commitment to our allies.\n\n\u201cI will continue to use every legislative tool at my disposal to ensure the Department of Defense and the Trump Administration remains accountable to the American people, focused on its mission, and capable of defending the United States and its allies in an increasingly complex global landscape. The Defense Department must modernize, and this administration must answer to Congress on all of the major changes they are proposing. The NDAA is one of the opportunities the minority party in Congress has to constrain this administration\u2019s abuses of power, and that is why I voted Yes.\u201d\n\nThe final bill includes the following wins championed by Congressman Moulton:\n\nRequires DoD to share the unredacted video and written orders for each strike against a drug boat in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.\n\nProvides $400 million for Ukraine security assistance for both 2026 and 2027. This money will ensure continued US military support for Ukraine.\n\nProtects university research by ensuring that DoD cannot stiff universities by lowering the rates at which they will reimburse the fixed costs associated with conducting research paid for with DoD dollars.\n\nProhibits the recognition of Russian sovereignty over captured Ukrainian territory\u2014a legal requirement that will prevent the worst of Trump's proposed peace deals.\n\nProhibits the US government from contracting with Chinese biotechnology companies known to work with the Chinese military, helping American biotech companies maintain their competitive advantage and preventing the transfer of US citizens' genomic information to the Chinese military.\n\nOversight and accountability for firing military lawyers. The Secretary of Defense will be required to notify the Armed Services Committee and provide a written justification for removing any Judge Advocate General, making it harder to conduct politically-motivated removals within the military justice system.\n\nAlso requires clear, written justification for the removal of members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Combatant Commanders. This helps prevent the politicization of the upper echelons of the military, which is a priority of Congressman Moulton\u2019s.\n\nResisted Republican attempts to rewrite the US\u2019s national missile defense policy to emphasize defense\u2014 \u2013 a recipe for an arms race\u2014 \u2013 over deterrence. The final bill preserves the emphasis on nuclear deterrence.\n\nEnsured strong oversight of the Golden Dome program, requiring detailed annual reporting on planning, costs, testing, and timelines until the system reaches full maturity. This ensures Congress can hold the administration accountable for any major changes to homeland missile defense.\n\nRequires a strategy to strengthen multilateral deterrence in the Pacific, ensuring we continue to work with our allies despite Trump\u2019s misguided America First agenda.\n\nSignificantly improves the DoD\u2019s legal ability to protect bases and other DoD facilities from drone incursions.\n\nReallocated money from a failing, obsolete ship program to modernize the Marine Corps capabilities with additional drones.\n\nEnsured oversight of the DoD\u2019s most expensive and most troubled weapons program in history, the F-35 fighter jet, requiring that Congress receive additional information on the most delayed aspects of the program. Congressman Moulton has kept consistent pressure on the prime contractor and the DoD to improve the program and deliver the capabilities they promised the American taxpayer.\n\nImproved the efficiency of DoD acquisition by giving program managers direct control over their teams to ensure they can hold their staff accountable for poor performance.\n\nProhibited privately-owned space-based missile defense interceptors. In response to real proposals from SpaceX, the law limits billionaires like Elon Musk from owning space-based missile defense systems and selling them to the military as a subscription service.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://moulton.house.gov/news/press-releases/statement-congressman-seth-moulton-key-ndaa-wins-fy26"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7726671174168587, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}