Who held defense stocks while making national security policy?
Though all of the lawmakers in a recent analysis deny any impropriety, the capacity for competing interests is clear.
Though all of the lawmakers in a recent analysis deny any impropriety, the capacity for competing interests is clear.
His latest request could push total spending on the war to $70 billion. Will Congress get the chance to even debate it?
Lawmakers added $37 billion beyond what the Pentagon asked for, most of it going to defense contractors at the expense of service members.
Today’s move follows incidents of high profile corruption and influence peddling involving well-connected Americans.
Complaining that domestic priorities are being sacrificed, these Democrats want to slash military spending by $100 billion.
Nearly 15 years of fighting for recognition and health care benefits for toxic exposure in recent wars may be coming to an end.
Progressives have to shed politically-charged projects and identify budget issues and personalities with bipartisan appeal.
Lawmakers find out that the DoD’s premier fighter can’t pass tests and will cost $1.3 trillion over its lifetime to sustain.
Members of Congress making military policy are invested in the very weapons companies benefiting from it. That’s wrong.
Given the current state of the economy, that would mean the DoD budget could increase by over $100 billion.
A new poll finds that across the board, Americans say Congress should have more authority than the president in the use of military force.
The Kentucky Republican leaves classified briefing, says US in “much more difficult position now” than when the JCPOA was enforced.
CENTCOM Commander McKenzie unofficially announced the sale of F-15s to Egypt, despite congressional criticism.
Don’t repeat the shameful history of Georgia in 2008, where Washington made quasi-promises of military aid it had no intention of fulfilling.
Proposals floating around Washington could backfire at a time when Russia is already digging itself a hole.
The president’s red line on direct US intervention is reassuring, but signals that he has given up on diplomacy are not.
If this Republican had his way we’d be on the brink of WWIII at least a half a dozen times in the last decade.
A letter signed by more than 160 Republicans promising to kill the Iran nuclear deal could have been drawn up by hardliners in Tehran.
Democrats have been reluctant to challenge Biden on this issue but the situation is getting worse and time is running out.
Legislation set for debate this week goes way beyond semiconductors and uses paranoia over not ‘keeping up’ to get more money for defense.
Punishing and humiliating Moscow won’t do anything to reduce tensions or encourage the compromises needed to avoid war.