Failing passage of the bill or other relevant legislative changes, draft registration becomes automatic for 18-year-olds in ...

Young, eligible men will be automatically registered for the military draft pool starting in December as part of a measure tucked into the annual defense policy bill Congress signed into law late last ...

Every year, Congress must pass the federal defense policy bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act. The annual bill proposes policy for the Department of Defense and guides the military ...

Congress appropriates funds for the SSS through the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act./158 For FY2021, Congress appropriated $26 million, a decrease from the FY2020 ...

On December 18, 2025, President Donald Trump signed the fiscal year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law, and tucked inside that sweeping piece of annual defense legislation was a ...

Automatic registration is expected to begin later this year - but are there exceptions?

KILLEEN, Texas (KWTX) - Men ages 18 to 25 will no longer have to register with the Selective Service System for a potential military draft after December. The automatic registration was included in ...

As the Iran war continues — despite a recent fragile ceasefire — concerns are popping up the United States may reinstitute the draft. Those eligible, along with their friends and family members, are ...

A new rule passed by Congress last year will automatically register eligible men in the Selective Service, or military draft system, instead of requiring them to register themselves. Under federal law ...

The unwillingness of young people to be drafted won't become visible until after the country is militarily overcommitted.

A new law President Trump signed at the end of last year authorizes the automatic registration of most young men into the military draft pool. The change is not tied to the U.S.’s military operations ...