❗🇺🇸 Outgoing SecDef Austin has told the Office of Management & Budget that the Department of Defense requires a budget of $926 billion in FY26. 

Congressional Republicans are already discussing an increase in both FY25 & FY26 defense spending of a similar magnitude.

House Armed Services Chairman Rogers was reportedly due to brief President-elect Trump over the weekend on their plans to include the defense spending increase in the reconciliation package. 

Via Bloomberg