Title: People Over Pentagon Act of 2022
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
People Over Pentagon Act of 2022
This bill reduces the amount authorized to be appropriated for the Department of Defense in FY2023 by $100 billion.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8040 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8040

 To reduce the amount authorized to be appropriated for the Department 
        of Defense for fiscal year 2023, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 13, 2022

   Ms. Lee of California (for herself, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. 
Jayapal, Ms. Norton, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. McGovern, Mrs. 
Watson Coleman, and Ms. Omar) introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To reduce the amount authorized to be appropriated for the Department 
        of Defense for fiscal year 2023, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``People Over Pentagon Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) many of the most urgent threats to the national 
        security of the United States are not military in nature;
            (2) the Federal budget should reflect the national 
        priorities of the United States; and
            (3) in order to better protect the security of all people 
        and address the national priorities of the United States, the 
        budget of the Department of Defense should be reduced and the 
        associated savings should be reallocated.

SEC. 3. REDUCTION IN AMOUNTS AUTHORIZED TO BE APPROPRIATED FOR THE 
              DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2023.

    (a) In General.--The amount authorized to be appropriated for the 
Department of Defense for 2023 is--
            (1) the aggregate amount appropriated for the Department of 
        Defense for fiscal year 2022 in division C of the Consolidated 
        Appropriations Act, 2022 (Public Law 117-103), reduced by
            (2) $100,000,000,000.
    (b) Funding for Certain Accounts.--The amount authorized to be 
appropriated for each of the following accounts of the Department of 
Defense shall be the amount authorized to be appropriated for such 
account for fiscal year 2022:
            (1) The Defense Health Program.
            (2) Each military personnel account.
            (3) Each account providing for pay and benefits for persons 
        appointed into the civil service as defined in section 2101 of 
        title 5, United States Code.
    (c) Application of Funding Cuts.--In reducing funding for 
Department of Defense programs in accordance with subsection (a), the 
Secretary of Defense shall take into consideration the findings and 
recommendations contained in the Congressional Budget Office report 
entitled ``Illustrative Options for National Defense Under a Smaller 
Defense Budget'' and dated October 2021.
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