HR 5167
Advanced toward a vote
Authorizes about $1.19 billion in fiscal year 2026 funding for U.S. intelligence agencies and reorganizes counterintelligence, open-source intelligence, and AI oversight across the intelligence community.
Official title: Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
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House
Introduced
08-SEP-2025
Referred
08-SEP-2025
Approved by committee
10-SEP-2025
Reported
28-NOV-2025
On the calendar
28-NOV-2025
- Authorizes $674.5 million for the Intelligence Community Management Account and $514 million for the CIA Retirement and Disability Fund, with classified amounts set out in a separate schedule
- Creates a National Counterintelligence Center headed by a Senate-confirmed director and replaces the National Counterintelligence and Security Center
- Prohibits use of the DeepSeek application on intelligence community systems, with exceptions for national security and research
- Requires intelligence agencies to audit and limit purchases of commercially available information and adds oversight, training, and purge rules for open-source data on U.S. persons
- Bars requiring political or ideological activism for personnel decisions and requires merit-based personnel decisions across intelligence elements
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