Congress · 119th Congress
Warner: No reason not to release Sept. 2 strike video
↵↵Hegseth said during a Dec. 6 appearance at the Reagan National Defense Forum that the issue of releasing video of the second strike was under review.
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Congress · 119th Congress
Bacon calls Trump ‘the new Chamberlain’ over Russia policy
He's the new Chamberlain," Bacon said of Trump, an apparent reference to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's description of Trump in a Dec. 6 speech as "the true and rightful heir of Ronald Reagan."
Campaigns · 119th Congress
It’s Calvert vs. Kim in redrawn Southern California district
↵↵Under the new Proposition 50 map, Calvert's current 41st District would go from one President Donald Trump carried by 6 points in the 2024 election to one that former Vice President Kamala Harris would
Congress · 117th Congress
VA health care funds, military vaccine rule gum up omnibus talks
Take out veterans health care, which eats up a big chunk at $119 billion — 22 percent more than last year — and the remainder of nondefense spending would rise just 6 percent, barely keeping pace
Policy · 117th Congress
A Michigan community’s long battle with PFAS and the Pentagon
(Photo courtesy of Anthony Spaniola) Since early in 2010, Spaniola had been involved with community efforts to get the DOD to clean up contamination that has spread over nearly 6 square miles, including
Congress · 117th Congress
Fight brews over Pentagon’s push to counter extremists
University of Maryland National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, or START, has found that 17 percent of those charged with crimes during the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6,
Congress · 117th Congress
Senate NDAA to Pentagon: ‘Immediately’ halt fight against extremism
Jan. 6 alarm After the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the Pentagon placed a major focus on countering extremism. One month afterward, Defense Secretary Lloyd J.
Policy · 117th Congress
House panel’s NDAA, unlike Senate’s, sticks to Biden’s budget
Pacific Command as it faces down an increasingly assertive China, the measure would authorize $6 billion.
Congress · 117th Congress
Ukraine aid bill has billions for Pentagon, arms makers
The Ukraine bill would provide $6 billion for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, a program used to train, equip and support the Ukrainian armed forces.
Policy · 117th Congress
Inflation may shrink Biden’s big defense plan
Congress helped the Pentagon deal with inflation in fiscal 2022 by allocating in the omnibus bill fully 6 percent more than in the previous fiscal year, and that bill provided the Pentagon $6.5 billion
Congress · 117th Congress
Defense spending deal bristles with weapons Biden didn’t seek
The $782.5 billion figure was some $42 billion above fiscal 2021 spending, or nearly 6 percent.
Congress · 117th Congress
GOP decries cost of Pentagon anti-extremism and diversity training
Milley’s missive was dated Jan. 6, 2022 — one year after the Capitol riot. About 15 percent of those charged for perpetrating that attack had military ties.
Congress · 117th Congress
Defense appropriations likely to exceed fiscal 2022 NDAA levels
Key congressional staff disputed that figure, which would amount to a nearly 6 percent boost for Pentagon and other security accounts compared with fiscal 2021.
Policy · 117th Congress
Pentagon review finds few extremists in the armed forces
Austin III responded to the participation of about 80 veterans in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. Only one active duty servicemember has reportedly been charged.
Policy · 117th Congress
US ‘rarely’ enforced conditions on Afghanistan aid, audit says
ultimately fell to the Taliban might have been less effective, as a result, than they could have been, according to the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction’s previously unpublicized Oct. 6
Congress · 117th Congress
Jan. 6 probe could affect future congressional oversight
The House Jan. 6 select committee’s pursuit of what led to the attack on the Capitol is shaping up to be a fight over congressional oversight authority that may have lasting effects on the way the legislative
Congress · 117th Congress
Anger at the Pentagon is coming from both sides of the aisle
demanding Milley’s resignation, citing reporting from “Peril,” by journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, that says Milley had secret, back-channel calls with his Chinese counterpart after the deadly Jan. 6
Policy · 117th Congress
Air Force takes hard look at racial disparities
in an operations post can be a springboard to promotion and advancement, but the lack of minority officers in the field (21 percent of lieutenants and captains, 14 percent of majors and colonels, and 6
Congress · 117th Congress
House panel to debate banning extremism in the military
The fact that some 20 percent of the rioters in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol reportedly had ties to the military has catalyzed these concerns.
Congress · 117th Congress
Deal reached on $2.1B Capitol security supplemental
Shelby, R-Ala., would end months of stalemate between the parties about how to pay for costs stemming from the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by pro-Trump rioters and other emergency spending matters.