FY2024 Defense Appropriations: Summary of Funding

FY2024 Defense Appropriations: Summary of Funding

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FY2024 Defense Appropriations: Summary of
Proposed Funding
Updated April 22, 2024
The annual Department of Defense Appropriations Act primarily funds U.S. Department of Defense
(DOD) activities except for military construction and family housing programs. It also funds certain
activities of the intelligence community.
The Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2024 (Division A of P.L. 118-47) provided a total of
$814.4 billion—$1.7 billion (0.2%) less than the President’s budget request. Including funding for
medical insurance for military retirees and excluding nondefense funding, defense discretionary funding
in the act totaled $824.3 billion. That amounted to 93% of the $886.3 billion defense spending cap
Congress established in the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (FRA; P.L. 118-5). Certain types of funding,
including funding designated for emergency requirements, are effectively exempt from the FRA spending
limits. See Table 1.
This product provides a summary of funding in the House-passed version of the act (H.R. 4365; H.Rept.
118-121), Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC)-reported version (S. 2587; S.Rept. 118-81), and
enacted version of the act.
H.R. 4365
On June 15, 2023, the House Appropriations Committee (HAC) adopted draft FY2024 subcommittee
allocations, including for the Subcommittee on Defense (HAC-D). According to the committee, the total
defense funding across the subcommittees was equal to the amount allowed under the FRA defense cap.
H.R. 4365 would have provided $816.4 billion—$0.3 billion (0.04%) more funding than requested, with
no funds emergency-designated.
S. 2587
On June 22, 2023, the SAC reported its FY2024 subcommittee allocations (S.Rept. 118-45), including for
the Subcommittee on Defense (SAC-D). (These allocations were subsequently revised, most recently on
July 26; S.Rept. 118-78). According to CBO, the total defense funding across the subcommittees was
equal to the amount allowed under the FRA defense cap. S. 2587 would have provided $821.2 billion—
$5.1 billion (0.6%) more than requested. The bill would have provided a total of $8 billion in emergency-
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designated funding for unfunded priorities of the military services and combatant commands, operational
readiness, revised economic assumptions due to inflation, support of the armed forces of Taiwan, defense
industrial base capacity and workforce enhancement, and revised economic assumptions for fuel.
P.L. 118-47, Division A
The Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2024 (Division A of P.L. 118-47) provided $814.4
billion—$1.7 billion (0.2%) less than requested. In terms of major DOD appropriation titles, the act
provided more funding than requested for procurement ($3.0 billion, or 1.8%) and research, development,
test, & evaluation ($3.4 billion, or 2.4%); and less funding than requested for military personnel (-$2.6
billion, or 1.6%) and operation and maintenance ($2.9 billion, or 1.0%). The act also included $4.4 billion
in rescissions to unspent funds from prior years.
Prior obligations of budget authority in the FY2024 continuing resolutions from October 1, 2023, through
March 22, 2024 (P.L. 118-15; P.L. 118-22; P.L. 118-35; and P.L. 118-40) will be charged to the funding
provided by this act.
Table 1. Funding in Proposed and Enacted Versions of the Department of Defense
Appropriations Act, 2024 (H.R. 4365; S. 2587; P.L. 118-47, Div. A)
(in billions of dollars of budget authority)
Title
FY2023
FY2024
FY2024
FY2024
% Change
Enacted
FY2024
House-
SAC-
Enacted
(FY2024
(P.L. 117-
President’s
Passed
Reported (S. (P.L. 118-
enacted-
328, Div.
budget
(H.R. 4365)
2587)
47, Div.
request)
C)a
requestb
A)
Military Personnel
$162.97
$168.32
$167.37
$165.98
$165.69
-1.6%
Operation and Maintenance
$278.08
$290.07b
$293.06
$289.92
$287.19
-1.0%
Procurement
$162.24
$169.06
$165.06
$169.45
$172.03
+1.8%
Research, Development,
$139.76
$144.88
$146.84
$143.38
$148.32
+2.4%
Test, and Evaluation
Revolving and Management
$1.65
$1.68
$1.67
$1.80
$1.79
+6.2%
Funds
Other DOD Programs
$41.75
$40.92
$42.13
$41.70
$42.70
+4.3%
Related Agencies
$1.08
$1.16
$1.12
$1.12
$1.14
-2.1%
Intelligence
$0.56
$0.65
$0.61
$0.60
$0.63
-3.8%
Community
Management Account
CIA Retirement and
$0.51
$0.51
$0.51
$0.51
$0.51
-
Disability System
Fund (mandatory)
General Provisions
$0.94
-
-$0.88
$7.86
$-4.44
-
Emergency funding

-
$8.00c
-
-
Net rescissions and

-0.88
-$0.14
$-4.44
-
other funding
Total, Funding in the Bill
$788.47
$816.09
$816.38
$821.20
$814.41
-0.2%
Military Personnel (TRICARE
$9.74
$10.55b
$10.55
$10.56
$10.56
-
accrual payments)d

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Title
FY2023
FY2024
FY2024
FY2024
% Change
Enacted
FY2024
House-
SAC-
Enacted
(FY2024
(P.L. 117-
President’s
Passed
Reported (S. (P.L. 118-
enacted-
328, Div.
budget
(H.R. 4365)
2587)
47, Div.
request)
C)a
requestb
A)
Scorekeeping adjustments
$.04
$.03
$.03
$.03
$.03
0.0%
Total, Discretionary
$797.74
$826.16
$826.45e
$831.27f
$824.49g
-0.2%
Funding Associated with
the Bill
Total, Funding Associated
$798.25
$826.68
$826.96e
$831.78f
$825.00f
-0.2%
with the Billh

Source: CRS analysis of explanatory statement accompanying P.L. 117-328, Division C, as published in U.S. Congress,
House Committee on Appropriations, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, H.R. 2617/Public Law 117-328 [Legislative Text
and Explanatory Statement], Book 1 of 2, Divisions A-F, committee print, 117th Cong., 2nd sess., 2023, 50-347, pp. 765-784;
H.Rept. 118-121 accompanying H.R. 4365, pp. 311-325; S.Rept. 118-81 accompanying S. 2587, pp. 284-287; and the
explanatory statement accompanying P.L. 118-47, Division A, as published in the House, Congressional Record, vol. 170, no.
51, book 3 (March 22, 2024), pp. H1725-H1740.
Note: Totals may not sum due to rounding. Dol ars rounded to nearest hundredth.
a. To facilitate direct comparison of the FY2023 act with the FY2024 act, FY2023 data exclude supplemental
appropriations.
b. Amounts in this column reflect those in H.Rept. 118-121, which included slightly lower requested amounts for
Operation and Maintenance and TRICARE accrual payments than S.Rept. 118-81.
c. S. 2587 included general provisions that would provide a total of $8 bil ion in emergency funding, which is effectively
exempt from budget enforcement under the subcommittee allocations or the statutory discretionary caps.
d. The funding tables in H.Rept. 118-121 and S.Rept. 118-81 include, both in the amount requested for Military
Personnel by the Administration and in the amount recommended by the committees, approximately $10.6 bil ion
appropriated as an accrual payment to the Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund, which provides TRICARE for
Life medical insurance for military retirees. Since this payment is made automatically under a provision of permanent
law (10 U.S.C. §§1111-1117), these funds are not provided by annual defense appropriations acts even though they
are treated as discretionary funding for purposes of the congressional budget process.
e. For these FY2024 totals, see the breakdowns at H.Rept. 118-121, p. 303.
f.
For these FY2024 totals, see the breakdowns at S.Rept. 118-81, p. 283.
g. Figure includes $187 mil ion in nondefense funding. including $15 mil ion for the DOD-VA Health Care Sharing
Incentive Fund and $172 mil ion for the Joint DOD-VA Medical Facility Demonstration Fund. For these FY2024 totals,
see the explanatory statement accompanying P.L. 118-47, Division A, as published in the House, Congressional Record,
vol. 170, no. 51, book 3 (March 22, 2024), pp. H1725-H1740.
h. These amounts include the $0.51 bil ion in appropriated mandatory funding for the Central Intelligence Agency
Retirement Fund and Disability System Fund.

Author Information

Cameron M. Keys
Brendan W. McGarry
Analyst in Defense Logistics and Resource Management
Specialist in U.S. Defense Budget
Policy

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