IN-DEPTH: House GOP Spar Over ‘Culture War’ Amendments to $886 Billion Defense Budget

Reps.Chip Roy (R-Texas), Mary Miller (R-Ill.), Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), and Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) were among House Freedom Caucus members who warned reporters in a January Statuary Hall press conference in the Capitol Building that the FY24 defense budget would not be passed with usual bipartisan cooperation. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

For those steeped in the cement-dense rules of the legislative process who enjoy parliamentary intrigue, power plays, and shifting alliances all entangled in the nation’s must-pass defense budget, the United States House of Representatives is putting together a Republican-produced summer thriller.

For everyone else, brace for a series of hotly contested floor clashes on dozens—perhaps, hundreds—of controversial “culture war” amendments attached to the proposed $886.3 billion Fiscal Year 2024 defense budget in House debates likely to rage until the August recess.