To amend title 10, United States Code, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022, and the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 to repeal certain reporting requirements related to unfunded priorities, and for other purposes.
Key claim: HR9549 would repeal certain reporting requirements related to unfunded priorities under title 10 of the U.S. Code, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022, and the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018.
Abstract
(HR9549 · 119th Congress) Latest action (2026-06-30): Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
Why this matters
Unfunded priorities lists are a long-standing congressional oversight tool that force the services and combatant commands to disclose items they wanted but did not include in the President’s budget, giving appropriators visibility into internal DoD trade-offs. Repealing these reporting requirements would reduce administrative burden on DoD but also narrow Congress’s structured window into service-level shortfalls, shifting leverage in the annual defense authorization and appropriations cycle.