Tag: Defense Spending

Kevin McAleenan and Patrick Shanahan

Border apprehensions to surpass last 13 year totals in 122 days, DHS heightens funding plea

Paul Bedard · May 10, 2019 9:09 pm

In this March 2, 2019 file photo, a razor-wire-covered border wall separates Nogalas, Mexico, at left, and Nogales, Ariz.

Army Corps rescinds border wall contract, admits it 'improperly excluded' companies from bidding

Anna Giaritelli · May 9, 2019 7:00 pm

In this Jan. 9, 2019 photo, construction crews install new border wall sections seen from Tijuana, Mexico. The government is working on replacing and adding fencing in various locations, and Trump in February declared a national emergency to get more funding for the wall.

National Security

Construction company sues Army Corps, calls border fence bid process ‘highly flawed’

Anna Giaritelli · May 7, 2019 4:22 pm

An Afghan soldier launches a rocket propelled grenade as U.S. soldiers duck during a clash with insurgents in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 27, 2010.

Beltway Confidential

The War in Afghanistan is going even worse than you think

Daniel DePetris · May 2, 2019 12:00 pm

Beltway Confidential

The cost of Trump’s USS Truman budget games

Erin Dunne · May 1, 2019 6:42 pm

Members Congress clinb the steps of the House of Representatives for final votes, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 31, 2014. Congress ran full-tilt into election-year gridlock over immigration Thursday and staggered toward a five-week summer break with no agreement in sight on legislation to cope with the influx of young immigrants flocking illegally to the United States. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

Navy and Marine Corps say US forces at risk if Congress doesn’t pass a defense budget

Russ Read · May 1, 2019 2:58 am

Vice President Mike Pence salutes flight deck crew during a tour aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman at the Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Va., Tuesday, April 30, 2019.

National Security

Trump grants USS Truman aircraft carrier a reprieve after ordering its death

Jamie McIntyre · April 30, 2019 9:03 pm

Robert Daigle is shown.

Pentagon to lose another top official in May

Diana Stancy Correll · April 30, 2019 6:52 pm

Military personnel from member states stand to attention during the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit at the military and political alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on Wednesday, July 11, 2018. President Donald Trump opened up another front in his tussle with allies on his arrival at NATOâs annual summit, targeting Germany over its support for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia.

Germany goes it alone without respect for its partners

Rep. Francis Rooney · April 29, 2019 4:00 am

Luci Baines Johnson, left, and her sister, Lynda Johnson Robb, smash champagne bottles to christen the Lyndon B. Johnson, the third Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer, built at Bath Iron Works, Saturday, April 27, 2019, in Bath, Maine. Johnson and Robb and the daughters of the former president.

National Security

LBJ’s daughters christen ‘most ironic ship’ criticized as wasteful spending

Steven Nelson · April 27, 2019 7:15 pm

A federal agency appears to be concealing whether a judge spent time at work browsing pornography.

Pentagon: US opponents ‘quite successfully taking our stuff’

Joel Gehrke · April 24, 2019 11:32 pm

National Security

Pentagon wants to use space robots to fix satellites

Russ Read · April 24, 2019 1:57 am