Tag: Defense Spending

Sullivan: Congressional pushback to $40 billion Ukraine bill ‘a strange premise’

Katherine Doyle · May 18, 2022 8:03 pm

A U.S. Soldier from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment fires an FGM-148 Javelin during the combined arms live fire training exercise for Saber Strike 16 at the Estonian Defense Forces central training area near Tapa, Estonia, on June 19, 2016.

Pentagon moves $1.4 billion to replenish stocks reduced by war in Ukraine

Mike Brest · May 6, 2022 4:36 pm

From left, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy stand on the East steps of Capitol Hill in this Dec. 2021 photo.

Congressional Republicans criticize small defense increase in Biden’s budget blueprint

Kate Scanlon · April 8, 2022 3:00 am

Pentagon officials acknowledge budget not updated with latest inflation rates

Mike Brest · April 5, 2022 5:04 pm

Breaking down Biden’s new Pentagon budget request by service branch

Mike Brest · March 29, 2022 4:53 pm

Former Vice President Joe Biden takes the stage to speak to the International Association of Firefighters at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 12, 2019, amid growing expectations he'll soon announce he's running for president.

GOP lawmakers like defense spending in Biden budget, are wary of social programs

Juliegrace Brufke, Virginia Aabram · March 28, 2022 7:49 pm

This photo taken July 23, 2013, show the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Congress returns to work this week with a relatively short and simple agenda, vote to keep the government operating in the short term, then return home to campaign. National security threats from Islamic State militants and Russian aggression in Ukraine loom large, but September's session may be too short for lawmakers to do anything but talk about them.

Senate agrees to final defense bill that outspends Biden’s budget request

Mike Brest · December 7, 2021 7:09 pm

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen delivers a speech during National Day celebrations in front of the Presidential Building in Taipei, Taiwan, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021. More recently, two U.S. defense companies were sanctioned by the Chinese government due to their participation in arms sales with Taiwan.

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Pass the Arm Taiwan Act

Sean Durns · November 10, 2021 4:30 pm

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Germany’s likely new government abandons 2% NATO pledge

Tom Rogan · October 15, 2021 8:38 pm

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., walks to the Senate as an 11th-hour Republican rescue mission to keep President Donald Trump from a Senate defeat on his signature issue of building barriers along the southwest border seems near collapse, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 13, 2019.

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‘Fund Iron Dome, not the Taliban,’ Rand Paul urges

Christopher Tremoglie · October 6, 2021 3:43 am

A nurse administers a flu shot, manufactured by Sanofi Pasteur, at Perry Memorial Hospital in Princeton, Illinois, U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017. Senate in both political parties say they've reached agreement on fixes to stabilize Obamacare just two weeks before Americans start signing up for 2018 coverage.

Biden administration ‘strongly opposes’ honorable discharge for service members who refuse COVID-19 vaccine

Mike Brest · September 22, 2021 6:51 pm

The U.S. military is currently planning to scrap all limits on placing women in combat roles (the current limits do not keep women totally out of combat). (AP file photo/Mel Evans)

Defense budget includes amendment that would require women to register for draft

Mike Brest · September 2, 2021 6:12 pm