Budget
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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 […]
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Congress
DOE Nuke Agency Would Get Requested Weapons Funding in Draft House Budget Bill; GOP Says ‘Short Changes’
Department of Energy nuclear weapons programs would get almost exactly the funding they requested for fiscal year 2022, if the House’s first draft of the Department of Energy’s budget bill […]
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CongressHouse Defense Panel Aims For Greater Oversight On GBSD Cost Control Measures
House appropriators are seeking to gain greater oversight into the Air Force’s cost control measures for the future Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) intercontinental ballistic missile, according to a bill […]