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Congress Unveils $901 Billion Defense Bill With China Investment Curbs and Europe Troop Safeguards

Leaders aim to fast‑track the compromise to a House vote this week.

A view of the dome of the U.S. Capitol building, during a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on a stopgap spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown that would otherwise begin October 1, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. U.S., September 19, 2025. REUTERS/Kent Nishimura/File Photo
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Overview

  • The roughly 3,000‑page measure sets a topline near $901 billion, about $8 billion above the president’s request, and provides a 4% pay raise for enlisted service members.
  • It establishes an outbound investment screening system that requires notifications to Treasury, authorizes blocking of deals, and enables sanctions on entities linked to China’s military and surveillance networks.
  • Procurement and sourcing prohibitions bar Pentagon contracts with certain Chinese biotech firms and begin phasing out Chinese‑made tech and components from defense supply chains.
  • The bill restricts sustained reductions below 76,000 U.S. troops in Europe without certifications and NATO consultation, applies parallel limits for the Korean Peninsula, and preserves the U.S. role as NATO’s SACEUR.
  • It repeals the 1991 and 2002 Iraq AUMFs, reauthorizes $400 million for Ukraine assistance, restores an FBI notification requirement for investigations into federal candidates, and drops IVF expansion language, with the package moving via Senate bill S.1071.