The Republican championed new National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), represents the “Deep State” in a combination of entrenched interests, committees, lobbies, and bureaucracies that value the continuity of power over innovative strategy and sound reform.
It does this by restricting the drawdown of troops stationed overseas, increasing murky foreign entrenchment through legally binding efforts to sell arms, and implementing dubious clauses requiring congressional approval at every turn, thereby limiting Executive power.
All these actions serve to bind the Commander-in-Chief’s hands. All of this reeks of a shadowy administrative order desperately trying to maintain the status quo at the expense of the will of the people who elected Donald Trump in 2024.
Americans need to understand that the NDAA would obstruct the execution of President Trump’s agenda. As written, it functions as a deliberate statutory barrier to Trump’s presidential decision-making. This denotes a redistribution of war powers from the elected executive to a sprawling and unaccountable institutional structure.
The NDAA represents what Americans call the “deep state,” a combination of entrenched interests, committees, lobbies, and bureaucracies that value continuity over reasonable strategy and logical reform. This continuity becomes clear when you look at what the House and Senate didn’t include in the compromised NDAA.
The Senate’s original bill contained a provision barring the use of DEI in service-academy admissions — a measure that would have required merit-only standards and prevented racial profiling. Congress stripped that section out. The final bill includes a few weak gestures toward limiting DEI, but none of them meet President Trump’s goal of a military that rejects race and sex as factors altogether.
As written, the NDAA gives a future Democratic president the opportunity to reintroduce woke indoctrination in the military with the stroke of a pen. And laws favoring DEI at our nation’s most vital institutions could resurface on a whim, using typical “diversity is our strength” platitudes.
The National Security Strategy ought to reflect the will of voters, but instead, the new NDAA reflects bureaucratic inertia. That is why Trump should not, in good conscience, sign this bill. Our escape from stagnation, mediocrity, and endless foreign entanglements depends on rejecting it, and time is running out.
It seems like our Congressional leaders are determined to destroy our country to help the Deep State. About is, it will take a unified uprising of Americans to free us from the oppression of the Deep State. Any Congressional leaders who vote to maintain this farce are compromised and cannot be trusted. Wake up, America!
I surely hope that TRUMP DOES NOT SIGN the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for the 2026 fiscal year as it stands. To pass this atrocious piece of legislation is a slap in the face of every American, not to mention the true patriots serving in our military.
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