Tag: Defense Spending

Donna Processing Center in Donna, Texas

Beltway Confidential

The Air Force wants to buy more F-15X jets, and it’s a huge mistake

John Venable · February 6, 2019 5:38 pm

U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a roundtable with Hispanic pastors in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Jan. 25, 2019. TrumpÂ agreed to re-open the federal government for about three weeks without any guarantee Congress would provide money for his proposed border wall, his top campaign promise, capitulating to House SpeakerÂ Nancy Pelosi.

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Trump’s perilous trade-off: Border wall vs. military construction spending

Erin Dunne · February 5, 2019 5:28 pm

FILE - In this July 31, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump pauses during remarks at a campaign rally at Florida State Fairgrounds Expo Hall in Tampa, Fla. The Robesonian paper in Lumberton, N.C., announced itâs dropping an 8-page color comics section from Sunday editions. A newspaper editorial said it cut the comics because of rising newsprint costs spurred by Trump administration tariffs on imported paper. The newspaper says itâs âa decision that we really believe was made at the White House.â

Trump says ‘Good chance’ he will declare national emergency to build wall

Melissa Quinn · February 1, 2019 6:12 pm

Prospect of second government shutdown unnerves business

James Langford · February 1, 2019 5:00 am

Donald Trump on Boeing's F/A-18 Hornet: "Oh, did they have another one of these things go down? It's terrible that crash. Never liked that plane, structurally."

Boeing expects support from Pentagon, Congress to buoy 2019 sales

James Langford · January 30, 2019 5:50 pm

Boeing Co. won a contract to developer a tanker drone capable of refueling Navy fighter jets in mid-flight.

Boeing sales top $101 billion amid spike in military aircraft purchases

James Langford · January 30, 2019 8:28 am

Mac Thornberry and Adam Smith

Ex-House Armed Services chairman clashes with successor over troop deployments to border

Anna Giaritelli · January 29, 2019 8:15 pm

U.S. Marines and Sailors with the Essex Amphibious Ready Group and the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit wait for flight operations to begin while F-35B Lightning IIs with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 211, 13th MEU, are refueled in preparation for the F-35B's first combat strike on Thursday.

Lockheed targets $57 billion in sales as F-35 fighter takes off

James Langford · January 29, 2019 4:42 pm

President Trump walks out of the Oval Office to speak in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C.

Beltway Confidential

Trump is on dangerous turf in declaring the wall an ’emergency’

Quin Hillyer · January 27, 2019 2:55 pm

Members of the U.S. military install multiple tiers of concertina wire along the banks of the Rio Grande near the Juarez-Lincoln Bridge at the U.S.-Mexico border in Laredo, Texas.

Pentagon examining border wall options if Trump declares national emergency

Diana Stancy Correll · January 10, 2019 7:27 pm

Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, said Tuesday that the United States would be better off without a government shutdown this fall, as President Trump called for in a Tuesday morning tweet. (David Banks/Bloomberg)

Top Republican on House Armed Services Committee opposes military money for border wall

Diana Stancy Correll · January 8, 2019 9:28 pm

President Trump speaks on the South Lawn of the White House as he walks to Marine One.

Trump’s calculated ’emergency’ plan to build a wall

Washington Examiner · January 8, 2019 5:00 am