Push to include the RECEIPTS Act in this year's NDAA to improve financial traceability and accountability across the Pentagon.

And that's why I'm pushing for my RECEIPTS Act in this year's NDAA. It’s focused on improving financial traceability and accountability across the department

Ernst said she is pushing for her RECEIPTS Act in the year's NDAA to improve Pentagon financial traceability and accountability.

Ernst Pushes Pentagon to Pass Clean Financial Audit
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Ernst’s Reviewing Every Check and Each Invoice Purchasing Troops’ Supplies (RECEIPTS) Act requires the Pentagon to achieve a clean audit by 2028 and to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) technology to reduce the reliance on costly consultants.

The release repeats Ernst's RECEIPTS Act commitment in the NDAA, including a Pentagon clean-audit requirement by 2028 and AI modernization funding offset by reduced consulting contracts.

Ernst Increases Access to Child Care for Military Families and Transparency for Defense Spending
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Ernst's office said she was introducing the RECEIPTS Act to require a Pentagon clean audit by 2028 and use AI for audits.

This shows Ernst publicly launched the RECEIPTS Act during her current Senate term and framed it as Pentagon financial accountability legislation.

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Ernst Wages War on Waste at the Pentagon
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The bill text records that Ms. Ernst introduced S. 3902 and it was referred to the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Official bill text confirms a concrete legislative step: formal introduction of the RECEIPTS Act in the Senate, with provisions on auditable DoD statements, clean-audit incentives and penalties, and AI-enabled audit support.

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S. 3902, 119th Congress, Introduced Version: RECEIPTS Act
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Ernst said she was “pushing for my RECEIPTS Act in this year's NDAA” to improve financial traceability and accountability.

The official committee transcript directly matches the claim: Ernst used an Armed Services hearing on the FY2027 defense budget to advocate adding the RECEIPTS Act to that year's NDAA.

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Senate Armed Services Committee Transcript: Department of Defense Budget Request for FY2027
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Ernst's office reported she highlighted the RECEIPTS Act at the Armed Services hearing and tied it to accounting for every cent spent.

This corroborates that Ernst actively promoted the bill in the NDAA context, but it is member-office evidence of advocacy rather than proof the language was included in enacted NDAA text.

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Ernst Pushes Pentagon to Pass Clean Financial Audit
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LegiScan lists S. 3902 as introduced, pending in Senate Armed Services, with no recorded vote history.

As of the available tracking page, the RECEIPTS Act had not advanced beyond referral. That leaves actual NDAA inclusion unresolved, although Ernst clearly took legislative action.

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US SB3902 | 2025-2026 | 119th Congress
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The committee’s legislation page lists S. 3902 (RECEIPTS Act) with last action on 02.24.2026: it was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and no later committee action is shown on the page snippet.

Official committee tracking shows the RECEIPTS Act remained at referral stage as of the latest visible action, so NDAA inclusion was not yet achieved.

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Legislation | U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services
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In the April 30, 2026 Armed Services hearing, Senator Ernst said she was pushing her RECEIPTS Act in this year’s NDAA and described it as focused on financial traceability and accountability across the department.

Ernst made the promised push in an official hearing, which confirms advocacy activity but not enactment or inclusion in the NDAA text.

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Senate Armed Services Committee Transcript: Department of Defense Budget Request for FY2027
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The Senate Armed Services Committee announced it voted 18-9 to advance the FY2027 NDAA to the Senate floor.

This is the committee's latest official action in the lookback window. It shows the NDAA moved forward, but the release does not indicate that the RECEIPTS Act was added to the committee-passed bill.

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SASC Completes Markup of National Defens... | U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services
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The released FY2027 NDAA executive summary lists the bill's major highlights and includes real-time audit capability language, but a text search finds no mention of the RECEIPTS Act.

The committee's public summary of the NDAA does not surface RECEIPTS Act language, which is concrete evidence that Ernst's requested add-on was not included in the committee's released package.

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fy2027_ndaa_exsum.pdf
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