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.
Usual suspects wrongly claim that any DoD reductions in Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s speakership deal would harm national security.
The cost of new stimulus checks would leave the DoD’s spending levels about where they were a year before Trump took office.
The increase alone from last year is more than what some of the world’s biggest countries spend on their own defense budgets.
As long as there are no costs for opposing negotiations with adversaries, the military will remain the primary American tool abroad.
Don’t look at the topline $773 billion military budget proposal. Congress is padding it as we speak, particularly in the less noticed ‘R&D’ column.
There are now 900 amendments to the NDAA. We break down some of the most extravagant and expensive.
Congress padded Biden’s request for $12.3 billion in Ukraine aid, adding money for contractors and the other line items for the military.
Though all of the lawmakers in a recent analysis deny any impropriety, the capacity for competing interests is clear.
Why has this military corruption story involving drugs, prostitutes, and a guy with an unforgettable nickname flown under the radar?
Lawmakers added $37 billion beyond what the Pentagon asked for, most of it going to defense contractors at the expense of service members.
Lawmakers this week will rubber stamp a bill authorizing tens of billions more to the Defense Department that it didn’t even ask for.
Many want to increase already record high defense spending to confront Beijing. A new Quincy report lays out how the dangers are inflated.
Complaining that domestic priorities are being sacrificed, these Democrats want to slash military spending by $100 billion.
Why can’t a $782 billion defense budget keep planes from falling out of the sky?
When asked whether the taxpayer funds the weapons giant receives reflects US priorities, James Taiclet left out how much his company spends lobbying.
The US far outpaces all spenders when pressing threats like climate change and nuclear conflict that require diplomatic strategies receive little funding.
Amid the war in Ukraine, Europe has shown more willingness to provide for its own defense and the Biden team should encourage it.
Given the current state of the economy, that would mean the DoD budget could increase by over $100 billion.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine comes nowhere close to justifying ballooning the defense budget well past its Cold War peak.
A collective sigh of relief in Washington for those who feared the era of colossal budgets and power projection was over.