Replenish U.S. munitions stockpiles depleted by support to Ukraine

What has happened

1. Apr 3, 2026 Partially done

   The FY2027 President's Budget makes rapidly procuring twelve critical munitions "one of DOW's highest funding priorities," saying the investments "would generate expanded capacity in America's defense industrial base." A third round of money for the same object, still framed as capacity rather than as replenishment.

   • Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal Year 2027 — Department of War chapter

     Primary Executive branch Apr 3, 2026

   • White House FY2027 Budget fact sheet: Rebuilding Our Military

     Primary Executive branch Apr 3, 2026

2. Dec 18, 2025 Partially done

   The FY2026 NDAA sec. 361 requires the munitions production levels that meet the Out-Year Unconstrained Total Munitions Requirement to be built into the Department's planning, programming, budgeting and execution process, and sec. 364 requires a report on the critical munitions needed for simultaneous conflicts. A standing mechanism for sizing and sustaining stockpiles; not a report that they are replenished.

   • National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 (Public Law 119-60)

     Primary Congress Dec 18, 2025

3. Jul 4, 2025 Partially done

   Public Law 119-21 sec. 20004 appropriates about $25 billion through FY2029 for munitions and defense supply chain resiliency — long-range anti-ship and air-to-surface missiles, medium-range air-to-air missiles, torpedoes and mines, solid rocket motor industrial base investment, $1 billion for next-generation automated munitions production factories, $100 million for small and medium ammunition — plus $3.3 billion for the Industrial Base Fund. Production capacity funded; no accounting that the stockpiles depleted by support to Ukraine have been refilled.

   • Public Law 119-21, title XX (defense reconciliation appropriations)

     Primary Congress Jul 4, 2025