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Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, has pressed lawmakers to fund a $700 billion defense authorization bill already signed by President Trump and criticized the continuing resolutions for holding down the Pentagon budget and dangerously eroding military readiness. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
Foreign Policy

Mac Thornberry votes for stopgap budget hoping for better defense deal in January

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President Trump adjusts his jacket after signing the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Foreign Policy

Trump signs $700B defense policy bill into law, says military has ‘gotta be perfecto’

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Defense hawks led by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, fought for months to get the NDAA and its $634 billion in base defense spending through Congress. Another $66 billion in the NDAA for overseas military operations is exempt from the 2018 spending cap. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP)
Foreign Policy

Congress passed a $700 billion defense policy bill. The Pentagon may never get all of it

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The defense budget is big. The only thing more costly than spending $700 billion on national security is to not provide that funding. (iStock)
Beltway Confidential

Congress’ budgetary uncertainty is harming the troops

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President Trump delivered a speech to the U.S. troops at the U.S. Yokota Air Base, on the outskirts of Tokyo, on Sunday. Trump arrived in Japan Sunday on a five-nation trip to Asia, his second extended foreign trip since taking office and his first to Asia. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
National Security

Trump asks Congress for $6 billion for missile defense, ship repair, Asia strategy

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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis sent a letter to the House and Senate armed services committees that Pentagon staff are calling the
National Security

Jim Mattis says Senate bill hamstrings US cyber action

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National Security

Mac Thornberry: The US should not ‘completely’ pull out of Iran nuclear deal

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House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, said a string of military mishaps this year has killed roughly the same number of troops as victims in the Las Vegas shooting. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
National Security

Mac Thornberry: Roughly same number of troops killed in mishaps as shot in Las Vegas

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National Security

Army asks House to halt troubled $6 billion wireless program

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Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., took to the Senate floor last week still stinging from political defeat.
Foreign Policy

Did Democrats just rescue defense spending caps?

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