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H.R. 2670NDAA FY2024

Official title: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024

118th Congress · Enrolled (enacted, Public Law) · Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), Chair, House Armed Services Committee · reported Dec. 22, 2023 · read the full bill text →

Where the money goes

$676.0M across 2 tracked items

This law mostly authorizes, it doesn’t spend. It sets spending authorizations — ceilings Congress must still appropriate separately — rather than handing out cash, so it has almost no appropriations of its own. The pie shows the small appropriated part; the authorizations are disclosed below.

The largest verified line-items. This pie breaks down the biggest spending items in the bill — appropriations and mandatory (direct) spending — by category. Every dollar is quoted from the text; click any slice to read them. It is not necessarily every dollar in the bill (the smallest items may not be listed), and figures that aren’t spending — authorizations, guarantee ceilings, pay-fors, and carve-outs already counted — are deliberately left out and disclosed below.

$676.0Mtracked
In the bill, but not counted as spending

Authorizations (a ceiling on future spending)$9.6B

“There are authorized to be appropriated $X” sets a CAP on what a future appropriations bill may provide — it is permission, not money. Much of a landmark law’s headline figure is this. It is disclosed here, never summed into the pie, because the cash only exists if a later bill actually appropriates it.

  • Military construction / land acquisition at Naval Base Guam (Navy)$950.7M
  • Military construction / land acquisition at Fort Meade (Defense Agencies (NSA/Cyber Command))$885.0M
  • Intelligence Community Management Account of the Director of National Intelligence$645.9M
  • CIA Retirement and Disability Fund$514.0M
  • Port infrastructure development program (Maritime Administration)$500.0M
  • Military construction / land acquisition at Andersen Air Force Base (Navy)$497.6M
  • Military construction / land acquisition at Joint Region Marianas (Air Force)$411.0M
  • Cooperative Threat Reduction (Nunn-Lugar) program — dismantling WMD stockpiles$351.0M
  • Military construction / land acquisition at Naval Submarine Base New London (Navy)$333.3M
  • Military construction / land acquisition at Marine Corps Base Kaneohe Bay (Navy)$318.8M
  • Maintaining the U.S.-flag merchant marine for national security (Maritime Security Program)$318.0M
  • Military family housing construction (land acquisition and supporting facilities), Navy — Joint Region Marianas$290.4M
  • Military construction / land acquisition at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune (Navy)$286.8M
  • Military construction / land acquisition at Naval Weapons Station Yorktown (Navy)$283.5M
  • Military construction / land acquisition at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point (Navy)$269.8M
  • Military construction / land acquisition at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (Defense Agencies (Outside U.S.))$257.0M
  • Military construction / land acquisition at Fort Liberty (Army)$253.0M
  • Military construction / land acquisition at Tyndall Air Force Base (Air Force)$252.0M
  • Military construction / land acquisition at Naval Base Kitsap (Navy)$245.0M
  • Military construction / land acquisition at Ellsworth Air Force Base (Air Force)$235.0M
  • Military construction / land acquisition at March Air Reserve Base (Air Force Reserve)$226.5M
  • United States Merchant Marine Academy$198.5M
  • Military construction / land acquisition at Ramstein Air Base (Defense Agencies (Outside U.S.))$181.8M
  • Military construction / land acquisition at Fort Eisenhower (Army)$177.0M
  • Military construction / land acquisition at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland (Air Force)$158.0M
  • Cyberspace, Digital Connectivity, and Related Technologies (CDT) Fund (State Dept.)$150.0M
  • Military construction / land acquisition at Marine Barracks Washington (8th Street and I) (Navy)$131.8M
  • Maritime Administration operations and programs$105.6M
  • Armed Forces Retirement Home (from its Trust Fund)$77.0M
  • State maritime academies$66.6M
  • Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board operations$47.2M

Every dollar, cited

2 spending line-items

health$676.0M · 100%

  • World Trade Center Health Program Special Fund (9/11 responders/survivors)$444,000,000
    World Trade Center Health Program
    “…there is appropriated for fiscal year 2024 $444,000,000 for deposit into the Special Fund…”
    Division A — World Trade Center Health Program Special Fund (mandatory appropriation from the Treasury)
  • Pentagon/Shanksville Fund (WTC Health Program — Pentagon & Shanksville survivors)$232,000,000
    World Trade Center Health Program — Pentagon/Shanksville
    “…there is appropriated for fiscal year 2024 $232,000,000 for deposit into the Pentagon/Shanksville Fund…”
    Division A — Pentagon/Shanksville Fund (mandatory appropriation from the Treasury)

How this was built

Fetched enrolled XML via requests; faithful text via ElementTree.itertext() join. MilCon project rows (Division B) parsed from State/Installation/Amount tables (dollar strings verbatim); prose authorizations located by section. Public Law 118-31 (PLAW-118publ31). 33 of 33 sampled figures were re-located as exact strings in the source text. Source: GovInfo bulk BILLS collection (enrolled bill text, keyless). Full bill text.

CRITICAL MECHANISM CAVEAT: The NDAA is an AUTHORIZATION act, not an appropriations act. The operative verb throughout Divisions A, B, C, F and G is 'there is/are authorized to be appropriated' (116 occurrences) — a CEILING on FUTURE appropriations, i.e. permission, not cash. The actual discretionary money for defense is provided separately by the annual Defense/MilCon Appropriations Acts. Accordingly, ZERO line-items here carry mechanism 'appropriation'; the appropriated_total for this law is $0 by design, and that is the honest reading. Two genuine MANDATORY (direct-spending) appropriations DO appear — 'Out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, there is appropriated' — for the World Trade Center Health Program Special Fund ($444,000,000) and the Pentagon/Shanksville Fund ($232,000,000); these are tagged direct_spending (real outlays, not discretionary appropriations). The bill's ~$886B headline is NOT a single dollar string in the text: the big procurement/RDT&E/O&M/MilPers totals live in the Division D funding tables 'In Thousands of Dollars' as bare comma-formatted numbers (no '$'), summed across columns — not amenable to exact '$X' substring verification, so they are intentionally NOT extracted here. The cleanest verbatim, place-specific dollar strings in the enacted text are the Division B military-construction project authorizations (State/Installation/Amount), which dominate this extraction. Carve-out sub-allocations (e.g. CTR biological-threat-reduction $228,030,000 inside the $350,999,000 total; Merchant Marine Academy sub-lines inside $198,500,000) were deliberately NOT listed separately to avoid double-counting. Every dollar string below is an exact substring of the fetched enrolled text (all verification checks pass).

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