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Pay Our Military Act

To ensure continuity of pay and allowances for members of the Armed Forces in the event of a lapse in appropriations.

Introduced Sep 30, 2025

Latest action (Sep 30, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.

Referred to
Appropriations Committee
Policy area
Armed Forces and National Security
Issues
Defense

Summary

This bill would automatically appropriate funds to ensure military members, including reserve components, continue receiving pay and allowances during any lapse in appropriations (government shutdown) in fiscal year 2026. The bill would also cover pay and allowances for civilian Defense Department employees and contractors determined by the Secretary to be supporting active military members during the shutdown. The automatic appropriation would remain in effect until Congress enacts a regular appropriations bill, a continuing resolution, or another appropriations measure for fiscal 2026, or until January 1, 2027, whichever occurs first. This ensures military compensation continues uninterrupted during any break in standard appropriations.

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Sponsor (1)
49 cosponsors

Actions (2)
  1. Sep 30, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations. · house
  2. Sep 30, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 5401 — Pay Our Troops Act of 2026 · Introduced Sep 16, 2025 · Cong. 119 90%
  • S 3002 — Pay Our Military Act of 2025 · Introduced Oct 30, 2025 · Cong. 119 87%
  • S 3030 — Pay Our Military Act of 2025 · Introduced Oct 22, 2025 · Cong. 119 84%
  • HR 6044 — Pay Our Patriots Act · Introduced Nov 14, 2025 · Cong. 119 79%
  • HR 7322 — True Shutdown Fairness Act · Introduced Feb 2, 2026 · Cong. 119 77%
  • HR 7148 — Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 · Became Law Feb 3, 2026 · Cong. 119 77%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Sep 30, 2025

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Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

September 30, 2025

Mrs. Sykes (for herself, Mr. Bacon, Ms. Craig, Ms. Brownley, Mr. Moulton, Mr. Carter of Louisiana, Ms. McClellan, Mr. Whitesides, Mr. Conaway, Mr. Landsman, Ms. Williams of Georgia, Ms. McDonald Rivet, Mr. Thanedar, Mr. Gottheimer, Mr. Olszewski, Ms. McBride, Ms. Elfreth, Mr. Ruiz, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Cuellar, Ms. Tokuda, Ms. Goodlander, Mr. Swalwell, Mr. Kennedy of New York, Mr. Figures, and Ms. Schrier) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations

A BILL

To ensure continuity of pay and allowances for members of the Armed Forces in the event of a lapse in appropriations.

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 “Pay Our Military Act”.

SEC. 2. CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR PAY AND ALLOWANCES FOR MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES.

(a) In General.—There are hereby appropriated for fiscal year 2026, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for any period during which interim or full-year appropriations for fiscal year 2026 are not in effect, such sums as are necessary to provide pay and allowances to—

(1) members of the Armed Forces, including the reserve components thereof, who perform active service or inactive-duty training during such period;

(2) civilian employees of the Department of Defense (and the Department of Homeland Security in the case of the Coast Guard when the Coast Guard is not operating as a service in the Department of the Navy) whom the Secretary concerned determines are providing support to members of the Armed Forces described in paragraph (1); and

(3) contractors of the Department of Defense (and the Department of Homeland Security in the case of the Coast Guard when the Coast Guard is not operating as a service in the Department of the Navy) whom the Secretary concerned determines are providing support to members of the Armed Forces described in paragraph (1).

(b) Termination.—Appropriations and funds made available and authority granted pursuant to this Act shall be available until the first of the following occurs:

(1) The enactment into law of an appropriation (including a continuing appropriation) for any purpose for which amounts are made available in subsection (a).

(2) The enactment into law of the applicable regular or continuing appropriations resolution or other Act without any appropriation for such purpose.

(3) January 1, 2027.

(c) Definitions.—In this section:

(1) The terms “active service”, “Armed Forces”, and “inactive-duty training” have the meanings given such terms in section 101 of title 10, United States Code.

(2) The term “reserve components” means the components named in section 10101 of title 10, United States Code.

(3) The term “Secretary concerned” means—

(A) the Secretary of Defense with respect to the Department of Defense; and

(B) the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to matters concerning the Coast Guard when the Coast Guard is not operating as a service in the Department of the Navy. <all>

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