Budget
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BudgetEnergy Appropriator Hopes to Avoid Government Shutdown
Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.) Tuesday prodded hundreds of people here for the National Cleanup Workshop to urge their congressional representatives to avoid a federal government shutdown but stopped short of […]
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CongressWhite House Opposes House Defense Spending Bill For Multi-Year Munitions Cut, Divisive GOP Policies
The Biden administration has said it “strongly opposes” the House’s fiscal year 2024 defense spending bill for not fully supporting multi-year munitions procurement requests and its inclusion of divisive GOP-led […]
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PentagonCommission Reviewing DoD Budget Planning Releases Initial Report, Hicks Calls To Adopt Near-Term Actions
The commission tasked with reforming the Pentagon’s budget planning process has issued its interim report, which includes recommendations aimed at improving the department’s ability to foster innovation, providing greater funding […]
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Homeland SecuritySupplemental Funding Request Would Give CBP $323 Million To Support NII Systems
A supplemental funding request delivered to Congress last Thursday that would provide billions of dollars in military assistance to Ukraine also includes $323 million for Customs and Border Protection to […]
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CongressBiden Sends Supplemental Request To Congress To Aid Ukraine
President Biden on Thursday sent Congress a supplemental budget request that would provide funding to continue arming Ukrainian forces and help replenish Defense Department weapons stocks. The supplemental is also […]
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CongressSenate Appropriators Advance $831.8 Billion FY ‘24 Defense Spending Bill
The Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) on Thursday voted near unanimously to advance its $831.8 billion fiscal year 2024 defense spending bill. The bill factors in $8 billion for emergency spending […]
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Congress
Senate Appropriators’ Deal To Boost Spending Above Debt Limit Caps Includes $8 Billion More For Defense
The leaders of the Senate Appropriations Committee have reached an agreement to add $13.7 billion in emergency funding for fiscal year 2024 above spending levels set by the debt ceiling […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Plans To Award New Version Of Low Band Next Gen Jammer EMD Contract In September
The Navy anticipates awarding a new version of the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) contract for the Next Generation Jammer-Low Band(NGJ-LB), according to a Defense Department reprogramming request for fiscal […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Looks To Move Around MQ-25 Funding Due To EMD Delays
The Navy requested Congress let it move hundreds of millions of dollars related to the MQ-25 Stingray unmanned carrier-based tanker aircraft funds for fiscal year 2023 due to delays in […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNuke Spending Will Top $75 Billion Per Year Over Next Decade, Mostly To Modernize Triad
Over the next decade, the U.S. will spend an estimated $756 billion on modernizing and maintaining its current and future nuclear forces, or about $75 billion per year, a new […]