Budget
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CongressHouse Fails To Move Forward On Defense Spending Bill As GOP Members Sink Procedural Vote
A procedural vote in the House to move forward on its fiscal year 2024 defense appropriations bill failed 212 to 214 on Tuesday, after several hardline conservative GOP members broke […]
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CongressWicker: ‘I Would Not Leave Anything Off the Table’ for Aid to Ukraine
If Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) can ever get his House in order, some continuing aid for Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia may be forthcoming, as leading Republicans on the Senate side […]
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Special Operations
Possible Personnel Cuts at Army Special Operations Command Loom
A looming challenge for U.S. Army Secretary Christine Wormuth and Gen. Randy George, the nominee to become the next Army Chief of Staff, is opposition among those in the service’s […]
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CongressHouse GOP’s CR Deal With Defense Cut Exemption, No Ukraine Aid Receiving Pushback
House Republicans have offered a deal for a one-month stopgap funding bill to avoid a government shutdown which would exempt defense from a spending cut and has an anomaly for […]
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BudgetNavy Comptroller: Sequester Would Cut Navy Budget By $15 Billion
The Department of the Navy’s comptroller this week warned if the government faces a sequester starting in 2024 the Navy would face a $15 billion budget cut and if there […]
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BudgetSECNAV Directs ‘Running Fix’ Effort To Find High-Level Savings And Efficiencies
The Navy comptroller this week said the Secretary of the Navy directed a new initiative, dubbed Running Fix, to find more ways to increase efficiencies and save money in the […]
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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 […]