GOP won’t bird-dog defense budget with these hawks at the helm
Speaker McCarthy may have promised to cut defense spending, but his early actions suggest that he has little interest in rocking the boat.
Speaker McCarthy may have promised to cut defense spending, but his early actions suggest that he has little interest in rocking the boat.
Reportedly, part of the deal with Republican detractors would be capping entire federal budget to 2022 levels.
With military spending set to hit $858 billion next year, arms makers are buzzing with holiday cheer.
Contractors are poised to cash in as Congress adds billions to the Pentagon’s budget.
The results may help explain in part why the military is having recruiting troubles.
The reported request is grotesque, particularly when considering today’s unconstrained Pentagon waste.
New book by a seasoned journalist offers an unvarnished blow-by-blow account of the American war machine.
What would happen if we tied a tax to each budget hike? Don’t ask, it won’t happen.
This is an entitlement mindset — that military leaders are owed exorbitant increases each year regardless of the nation’s means.
It seems like whenever these committees get together the bottom line goes up — but not far enough for the military hawks.
A $23.9 billion addition to the NDAA would have a greater longterm impact than Congress wants to acknowledge.
The president is going full speed ahead on beefing up the triad and expensive modernization — despite cries from his own party.
On China, Afghanistan, defense budget, climate crisis and the Middle East — a bit of a mixed bag, say Quincy experts.
This isn’t about seizing islands on the other side of the globe, but keeping territory in the Pentagon bureaucracy.
Reps. Barbara Lee and Betty McCollum just took over two key sub-committees focused on foreign policy and defense spending.