(LifeSiteNews) — The U.S. House of Representatives passed on Wednesday the $1.15 trillion 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a sprawling defense policy bill that includes language to deepen integration between the American and Israeli militaries.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described this integration concept as his own “plan” for the United States.
Lawmakers approved the rule allowing floor debate and votes on the NDAA and related measures in a close 214-211 tally. The House approved the bill by a 216-212 vote, and now it will head to the Senate.
Final vote total for the NDAA today which tragically merges our military technology and supply chains with Israel’s. Let’s hope this version fails in the Senate because Section 219 is a betrayal of our sovereignty. pic.twitter.com/FtIukTzblR
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) July 22, 2026
The vote followed the House Rules Committee’s refusal to permit a vote on an amendment by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) that would have stripped Section 219—the provision advancing U.S.-Israel military technology and supply chain integration—from the legislation.
Massie voiced his frustration on social media stating, “Unfortunately the Rule passed just now and no debate or vote was allowed on section 219, integration of U.S. military technology and supply chains with Israel’s. The NDAA will receive a recorded vote tomorrow with section 219 in it. I’ll vote no.”
Unfortunately the Rule passed just now and no debate or vote was allowed on section 219, integration of US military technology and supply chains with Israel’s.
The NDAA will receive a recorded vote tomorrow with section 219 in it. I’ll vote no.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) July 21, 2026
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), who has joined Massie in opposing the measure, pledged to continue battling the provision during upcoming House-Senate negotiations on the final bill.
In a video statement, Khanna declared, “Thomas Massie and I have been fighting to stop the integration between our military and the Israeli military. It’s shocking that this even has to be explained. It’s about American sovereignty.”
He added: “Yet yesterday, the Rules Committee found that Thomas Massie’s amendment couldn’t even get a vote in the House of Representatives. We do not even have the chance to vote in the House to stop the U.S. and Israel from co-producing weapons. We need to now fight to strip this amendment in the conference between the House and the Senate.”
.@RepThomasMassie and I are leading the fight against military integration with Israel.
Congress was denied a vote on an amendment to stop it. Now we will fight to strip this provision in the conference between the House and Senate. pic.twitter.com/N32ItVgBlm
— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) July 21, 2026
The Senate’s counterpart version of the NDAA also features a similar integration provision. However, Senate Democrats blocked advancement of that bill (50-46) last week amid disagreements over President Trump’s ongoing military operations against Iran—actions lacking explicit congressional authorization despite passage of a War Powers Resolution calling for the unpopular conflict’s termination.
Should readers wish to contact their House representative to express their views on this matter, they may access their contact information by clicking here.
Provision obscures transparency and accountability, providing critical additional leverage to Israel
In early June, Massie and Kohana sounded the alarm over this provision of the bill, titled the “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.” This provision would designate a Pentagon “executive agent” to oversee expanded bilateral research and development, co-production of weapons, joint ventures, licensing agreements, network integration, and data fusion across advanced technologies including AI, quantum, autonomous systems, directed energy, cyber, and biotech.
Experts object that this goes far beyond traditional U.S. military aid—more than $200 billion inflation-adjusted since 1948—and would fuse the two countries’ defense sectors in unprecedented ways, reducing transparency and accountability while embedding Israeli priorities into U.S. supply chains.
Ben Freeman at Responsible Statecraft described the measure as the “first step towards shifting aid further into the shadows” avoiding accountability to the American public. It would also create a higher level of military-industrial integration than the U.S. maintains with any other nation, including NATO partners who are formal allies sharing a mutual defense treaty.
US giving up its national security secrets and sovereignty to Israel
The provision is further ordered toward making U.S. military data accessible to Israel, thereby rendering Israel’s aggressive spying on the U.S. security establishment over many decades much less necessary.
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As explained by constitutional attorney Robert Barnes, the provision would give Israel classified data and technological access “as if they’re part of the U.S. military” and allow “arms shipments to be made and military technology and national security technology to be shared without any special vote or particular action of the president” making it less visible to the public, at a time when the American citizenry is expressing unprecedented distrust in the Israeli government.
“This is truly unprecedented in American history that as a matter of law, no matter who the president is—and no matter what the president wants—the Israeli military will have access to American national security secrets and its generals will be on a par with ours,” lamented Judge Andrew Napolitano commenting on the provision in June.
Former British diplomat and veteran Middle East specialist Alastair Crooke responded stating, “it’s really in no interest of the United States to give up its sovereignty in this way to another state—to give up its sovereignty and also all its data and also all its technical abilities, to hand it over to a foreign state. So, I can’t imagine what will be the consequences of this.”
Commenting in June, Khanna explained, “Basically, the establishment has figured out that direct aid to Israel is unpopular, so they want to do an end run around the foreign sales process.”
“The foreign sales at least requires a commitment to upholding human rights,” the California Democrat continued. “Under this section, you would have a fusion of the United States and Israel’s military, so there’s no human rights test and no vote on aid. We need to strip Section (219).”
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Only 16% of Americans support weapons to Israel without restrictions
These unprecedented moves come at a time when the Israeli military has routinely employed U.S.-supplied weapons in strikes that violated international humanitarian law in Gaza, and as both Israel and the United States itself have repeatedly broken ceasefire agreements during the Trump administration’s unnecessary war with Iran.
The sharp contrast between the views of most Americans on these topics, with the policies being continually advanced and implemented by the Trump White House and the U.S. Congress are becoming stark.
An Institute for Global Affairs poll released May 19 examined American attitudes on arming Israel in greater depth, finding that just 16% believe the United States should continue supplying weapons without new restrictions, 38% want to end all weapons supplies entirely, and another 24% support conditioning weapons on how they are used.
Furthermore, a mid-May New York Times/Siena poll found only 30% of respondents said they believed Trump made “the right decision” by going to war with Iran, while 64% said it was the wrong choice. The U.S. State Department has confirmed the Trump administration initiated this war “at the request” of Israel.
Merger will establish Israel’s power over US policy far beyond all paid influencers and entire Israel Lobby combined
In a June 11 interview with Napolitano, Jewish journalist Max Blumenthal warned that section 219 of the NDAA “will consolidate Israeli control and Israel’s merger with the United States government, in a way that’s more powerful than all of the influencers that it’s paying and the entire Israel lobby’s power combined.”
The bill “strips away all of the diplomatic oversight mechanisms, the political oversight mechanisms, and it moves the US-Israeli special relationship outside of those channels into the murky, much more opaque world of the Pentagon and the defense sector… [where] everything can be hidden on the basis of national security,” the journalist continued.
For his part, Napolitano, assessed the provision is unconstitutional since it “is evading the treaty clause of the Constitution, because this is the moral and legal equivalent of a treaty, but they can’t get 2/3 of the Senate to confirm” such a measure.
Blumenthal added, “anyone who is concerned about the role that Israel is playing in completely invalidating the opinion of the American public, which opposes this economically destructive, murderous Iran war across partisan lines, has to intervene, call Congress, and do something to stop this bill.”
Should readers wish to contact their House representative to express their views on this matter, they may access their contact information by clicking here. U.S. Senator contact information can be found here.
This article has been updated.
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