Tag: Defense Spending

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., center, holds-up a synopsis of the House Republican budget proposal as he announces the plan on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

National Security

Conservatives question ‘gimmicks’ in House GOP’s defense budget

Tara Copp · March 17, 2015 9:18 pm

Pfc. Michael Covich from Auburn, N.Y., with the Army's 2nd Battalion 87th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division keeps watch from inside an Afghan National Army outpost during a patrol outside of Forward Operating Base Shank on March 29, 2014 near Pul-e Alam, Afghanistan. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

National Security

House budget would almost double Pentagon’s wartime fund

Tara Copp · March 17, 2015 3:39 pm

Pentagon prepares for an expensive decade

Tara Copp · March 16, 2015 9:00 am

In this file Image provided by the U.S. Navy on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, a F/A-18E Super Hornet attached to the Tomcatters of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 31 lands aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush after conducting strike missions against Islamic State group and other targets in Syria. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Mass Communication Spc. 3rd Class Brian Stephens-file)

New GOP budget will be a national security disaster and political nightmare

Hugh Hewitt · March 15, 2015 9:00 pm

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee, right, accompanied by fellow committee member Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 11, 2015, to discuss the budget. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

Prospects dim for defense spending

Tara Copp · March 11, 2015 9:40 pm

Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-NH., third from the right, meets with fellow Republican Senators on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014, before their joint news conference to discuss unemployment and military pension cuts. Clockwise, from Ayotte are, Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, S.C. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

Lawmakers scramble to get Defense budget compromise

Tara Copp · March 11, 2015 9:00 am

National Security

Spending caps will put Navy, Marines ‘lives at risk,’ Congress told

Tara Copp · March 10, 2015 6:22 pm

The Pentagon building is seen in this aerial photo. (U.S. Air Force/Getty Images)

Pentagon’s civilian job cuts don’t always stick

Tara Copp · March 9, 2015 9:00 am

Iraqi security forces hold a flag of the Islamic State group they captured during an operation outside Amirli, some 105 miles (170 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo, File)

Public not happy with Obama’s handling of Islamic State

Washington Examiner Staff · March 9, 2015 9:00 am

U.S. Airforce ground maintainence crewmen check over the engines of an A10 Thunderbolt 'Warthog' after it had returned from a mission April 2, 2003, at an air base near the Iraqi border. (Photo by Ian Waldie/Getty Images)

National Security

As it sunsets the A-10, Air Force works to retain its capabilities

Tara Copp · March 8, 2015 9:00 am

A pair of A-10 Thunderbolts fly by during a U.S. Air Force firepower demonstration at the Nevada Test and Training Range September 14, 2007 near Indian Springs, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

National Security

Defense secretary to review A-10 retirement decision

Tara Copp · March 6, 2015 10:00 am

Defense Secretary Ash Carter, left, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 3, 2015, before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing to review the defense authorization request for fiscal 2016 and the future years defense program. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

National Security

Defense secretary warned to prepare for spending caps

Tara Copp · March 4, 2015 11:29 pm