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Mike Rogers

Mike Rogers

Chairman, House Armed Services Committee (R-Ala.)

Appears in 2 stories

Notable Quotes

The FY26 NDAA supports modernization and fundamentally reforms defense acquisition by cutting red tape.

At a time when global threats are rapidly evolving, it’s never been more important to have a ready, lethal, and capable fighting force.

It's done. I've got all the answers I needed.

Stories

Pentagon orders U.S. troop withdrawal from Germany after Trump-Merz Iran rift

Force in Play

Publicly opposed; aligned with Wicker

U.S. troops have been stationed in Germany continuously since 1945. On May 1, 2026, the Pentagon began rolling back a piece of that posture: roughly 5,000 service members—about one in seven Americans currently in the country—will leave over the next 6 to 12 months, taking a full brigade with them. A long-range fires battalion that the U.S. had pledged to deploy at the 2024 NATO summit, designed to put deeper-strike weapons on alliance soil for the first time since the Cold War, was cancelled in the same order.

Updated Yesterday

House’s $900 billion defense bill ties troop raise, Ukraine aid and a boat-strike backlash

Rule Changes

Closed House Armed Services inquiry into boat strikes after viewing classified footage, declaring operation legal.

President Trump signed a nearly $901 billion defense bill into law on December 18, 2025, cementing the 65th consecutive year Congress has passed a National Defense Authorization Act. The measure delivers troops a 3.8% pay raise, locks in $800 million in weapons support for Ukraine over two years, sets troop floors in Europe and South Korea that defy Trump's withdrawal instincts, and rewires how the Pentagon buys weapons through sweeping acquisition reforms branded as the SPEED Act. It also repeals the 2002 Iraq War authorization while embedding Trump-era cuts to climate and diversity programs across the military.

Updated Jan 9