House Passes HFAC-led Reforms to Foreign Arms Sales Process

September 2, 2025
Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House passed several measures spearheaded by the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s bipartisan Foreign Arms Sales Task Force aimed at improving the foreign arms sales process and strengthening the U.S. defense industrial base. 

The legislation, passed alongside a broader package of legislation advanced by the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will codify much-needed reforms to the foreign arms sales process outlined in President Trump’s executive order in April with tailored legislation to improve transparency, efficiency, and ease cooperation with foreign partners.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast formally established the task force in March to ensure the foreign arms sales process meets the demands of the future.  It is led by Chairman Ryan Zinke (R-MT) and Ranking Member Madeleine Dean (D-PA).

"America can’t afford bureaucratic delays that put our allies at risk and weaken our national security,” Chairman Zinke said. “These reforms cut red tape, strengthen our ability to deter adversaries, and get more American-made systems into the hands of our partners faster. That means more jobs at home and a stronger, safer America abroad. The Trump Administration is moving quickly to strengthen our defense industrial base, and the House Foreign Military Sales Task Force is ensuring Congress stays lockstep with these reforms."

The task force-led measures passed by the House today include:

  • H.R. 4233 – AUKUS Reform for Military Optimization & Review (ARMOR) Act
  • H.R. 4215 – ITAR Licensing Reform Act
  • H.R. 4216 – Made-In-America Defense Act 

The reforms were advanced by the full committee as part of its second markup of the 119th Congress in July. As part of that markup, the full committee advanced other task force-led measures for consideration on the House floor including:

  • H.R. 3613 – Streamlining Foreign Military Sales Act of 2025
  • H.R. 3068 – Missile Technology Control Review Act
  • H.R. 4335 – Abraham Accords Defense Against Terror Act

“The reforms being led by the task force are, at their core, about deterring aggression and, when needed, defeating our adversaries,” Chairman Mast said. “When we streamline and strengthen the foreign arms sales process, we incentivize innovation, improve our domestic manufacturing capabilities, and create American jobs. The work the task force is doing could not come at a more critical time and I am proud to see this legislation advance.”

Since being established, the task force has heard from foreign partners, defense industry stakeholders, and U.S. government officials from across the interagency about key reforms needed to ensure the foreign arms sales process meets the demands of the future.

The task force’s efforts, which build upon the House Foreign Affairs Foreign Military Sales TIGER Task Force co-led by Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) and Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) last Congress, will result in more efficient partnerships between the government and private sector stakeholders, a stronger defense industrial base, and foreign partners being better armed more quickly with American systems and hardware which improves interoperability.

In addition to the foreign arms sales-related measures, the House also adopted several other House Foreign Affairs Committee-led measures aimed at strengthening U.S. partnerships and promoting peace and stability around the globe.

Those measures include:

  • H.R. 747 - Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act of 2025
  • H.R. 2503 - Undersea Cable Control Act
  • H.R. 2635 - Uyghur Policy Act of 2025