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Moore says NDAA includes pay raise, pushes transparency on locality pay for Hill Air Force Base
Summary
At a year‑end tele‑town hall, Congressman Blake Moore highlighted the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), including a 3.8% enlisted pay raise and a new requirement for OPM to report how locality pay is calculated — a move he said aims to fix undercounting at Hill Air Force Base.
Congressman Blake Moore said the week’s most important legislative development was work on the National Defense Authorization Act, which he described as the annual bill that sets defense policy and authorizes spending for the military. "The biggest legislative action of this week... is the National Defense Authorization Act or the NDAA," Moore said during his tele‑town hall.
Moore credited the NDAA cycle with a provision he described as a key win for troops: a 3.8% pay increase for enlisted service members. He also said the bill produced what he characterized as nearly $220 billion in savings in defense‑side measures and stressed that final appropriations remain to be settled: "What now has to happen is finalizing the appropriations bill of defense, and that's one of the 12 appropriations bills," he said.
Representing a district that includes Hill Air Force Base, Moore said he and his staff pushed to improve how locality pay is calculated for federal wage and salary employees. "In the 2025 NDAA... we required... a report for OPM, the Office of Personnel Management, to tell Congress how locality pay is calculated, requiring some transparency on how they go about doing this," he said, calling the measure a step toward correcting what he and constituents see as undercounting for Wasatch Front cost of living.
Moore told a caller who said federal employees at Hill AFB had not kept up with local cost increases that transparency from OPM would be a first step and that his office continues to work with base leadership to pursue fixes. He cautioned that rulemaking and implementation take time, but said the provision gives policymakers better data to press for adjustments.
Moore framed the NDAA progress as part of his ongoing district work and said some appropriations steps would extend into the new year. The town hall did not include a formal vote by the representative; Moore described policy outcomes and committee wins discussed during the call.
