Policy · 119th Congress
The whoppers of 2025
On Nov. 1, 2024, just before the election, the BLS report showed growth of just 12,000 jobs in October and downward revisions for the prior two months.↵↵Signalgate: Not "total exoneration."Â
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Congress · 119th Congress
House votes overwhelmingly to pass compromise NDAA
↵↵The potential for the military budget to meet or exceed $1 trillion in fiscal 2026 has defense hawks pleased, even if the authorized level does not meet the $924.7 billion that the Senate had endorsed
Congress · 119th Congress
Defense contractors fight back against NDAA repair language
↵↵Likewise, the Professional Services Council, a trade group that represents hundreds of federal contractors and more than 1 million employees, expressed strong opposition to the Warren-Sheehy proposal
Congress · 119th Congress
No quick fix for Head Start funding as programs start to close
↵↵For instance, at the start of the shutdown, six Head Start recipients with Oct. 1 start dates went without further federal funding — but that figure jumped to 140 on Monday, according to the National
Congress · 118th Congress
Lawmakers eye opportunities as Philippines base access expands
Those five existing bases have received more than $82 million in U.S. infrastructure investments, according to DOD’s announcement Feb. 1.
Policy · 118th Congress
McCarthy, Biden to meet in hopes of avoiding debt limit debacle
President Barack Obama met with House Republicans on June 1 to discuss the budget and debt limit, and he played golf with Boehner later in the month.
Congress · 118th Congress
Debt limit battle set to dominate 2023 fiscal agenda
Vought’s plan has no cuts to Social Security benefits now or in the future, and claims the same for Medicare benefits although it would slice $1 trillion from payments to health providers who serve
Congress · 118th Congress
Congress barely dents scourge of hunger in military
A recently enacted income supplement for low-ranking U.S. troops, put in place primarily to alleviate food insecurity in the ranks, will help less than 1 percent of the estimated scores of thousands of
Congress · 117th Congress
New NDAA advocates bulkier national defense budget
It would prohibit the retirement of the F-22 Raptor fighter jet, and prevent or modify the retirement plans for various aircraft, including B-1, F-15, E-3 AWACS and C-40 aircraft.
Policy · 117th Congress
DOD strategy reports show rising nuclear tensions
To be sure, the administration would like to see few weapons programs terminated, namely the sea-launched cruise missile and the B83-1 gravity bomb. But those positions were known.
Policy · 117th Congress
As China threatens Taiwan, Okinawa braces for war
Even though Okinawa prefecture, which includes 48 inhabited islands, accounts for less than 1 percent of Japan’s total land mass, over 70 percent of all U.S. military facilities in Japan are located
Congress · 117th Congress
White House seeks more Ukraine weapons support in Senate NDAA
standoff The administration also strongly opposes continued funding for the nuclear sea-launched cruise missile (SLCM-N) and its associated warhead, and any attempts to delay the retirement of the B83-1Â
Congress · 117th Congress
Senate NDAA debate could have something for everyone
Another section, also found in the House version, would make Portuguese citizens eligible for E-1 and E-2 treaty visas, which allow foreign citizens from nations engaged in trade and commerce with the
Congress · 117th Congress
White House $47B supplemental request seeks COVID, Ukraine funding
Congress reconvenes next week to start working on stopgap funding legislation on which President Joe Biden’s signature is required before Oct. 1 in order to avert a partial government shutdown.
Congress · 117th Congress
Pentagon discloses a record rate of sexual assaults
Of all servicemembers, 8.4 percent of women (roughly 1 in 12) and 1.5 percent of men said they had been assaulted or that someone had tried to assault them.
Congress · 117th Congress
Senate Democrats make their move on fiscal 2023 appropriations
The bills, which were drafted without a bipartisan agreement on funding levels, amount to a wish list of $1.67 trillion in discretionary spending for fiscal 2023, which begins Oct. 1.
Congress · 117th Congress
NDAA a magnet for far-reaching amendments
Although Congress passed a law in 2010 that reduced statutory penalties for crack cocaine offenses to produce an 18-to-1 crack-to-powder ratio for length of sentences — down from 100-to-1 from 1986
Congress · 117th Congress
Senate NDAA has $13 billion extra for defense inflation
Defense inflation goes by a different measure, and it is not known what prices will be like for the Pentagon from Oct. 1, 2022, through Sept. 30, 2023, the time period covered by the legislation.
Congress · 117th Congress
House NDAA would further limit Pentagon officials’ stock ownership
The National Defense Authorization Act that the House passed Thursday includes an amendment that would expand the covered companies to comprise those that earned $1 billion or more in revenue from
Congress · 117th Congress
House easily passes NDAA
The massive piece of legislation would authorize $1 billion in new military aid for Ukraine and force the Biden administration to keep developing a nuclear cruise missile that officials had wanted