Budget
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CongressHouse Panel Adds $1 Billion For CISA As Part Of Budget Reconciliation
The House Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday voted along partisan lines to add more than $1 billion in new funding for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) over the […]
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CongressDem Senators Urge Unspent Afghan Forces Funds Be Used For Relocation Aid, Not Defense Spending
A group of Democratic senators are urging that more than $6 billion in unspent funds for U.S. support to the Afghan security forces be reallocated for humanitarian purposes rather than […]
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CongressSenate Dems’ $3.5 Trillion Budget Resolution Proposes Marginal Defense Spending Increases
Senate Democrats on Monday detailed their proposed $3.5 trillion budget resolution, which includes calling for a total $765.7 billion fiscal year 2022 defense budget and one to two percent defense […]
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CongressMcConnell, Shelby Urge Defense Spending Topline Boost As Priority For Budget Deal
Lead Republican lawmakers in the Senate on Wednesday renewed their push for a higher defense topline as the chamber kicked off its fiscal year 2022 appropriations process, to include calling […]
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Air ForceHASC Panel Wants DoD Report on F-35 Pilot Breathing System
The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) tactical air and land forces panel wants the Pentagon to submit a report on the pilot breathing system for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 […]
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CongressSASC Approves $25 Billion Increase To Pentagon’s FY ‘22 Topline In Their NDAA
The Senate Armed Services Committee has voted to increase the Pentagon’s fiscal year 2022 topline by $25 billion above the president’s $715 billion budget request in its version of the […]
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BudgetGOP Lawmakers File Amendments to Provide Funds for Proposed Sea-Launched Nukes in DoE Budget
With the full House set to vote next week on a multi-bill spending package that would keep the civilian nuclear weapons budget about flat at about $20 billion, some Republican […]
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BudgetHouse Approps Committee’s Civil Nuke Budget Holds Line on Major Weapons Programs
The House Appropriations Committee last Friday approved a 2022 civilian nuclear weapons budget that for now holds the line on modernizing the Department of Energy’s nuclear-weapons production complex, including proposed […]
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CongressHouse Appropriations Approves $706 Billion Defense Bill As Republicans Take Aim At Topline During Markup
The House Appropriations Committee voted 33 to 23 on Tuesday to approve its $706 billion fiscal year 2022 defense spending bill, following a markup where the panel’s Republicans took aim […]
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BudgetDHS Spending Bill Approved By House Appropriators
The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday approved along party lines a $52.8 billion spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security that will have to be reconciled with an eventual […]