The Senate’s top defense appropriator last week criticized Republicans’ “unprecedented obstruction” in moving spending bills forward and said a potential year-long continuing resolution could amount to a $70 billion impact on the Pentagon and Department of Veterans Affairs. Sen. Jon ...
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The House last Friday passed President Biden’s Build Back Better Act (H.R. 5376), a spending bill with close to $2 trillion in new funding to fight climate change, provide new education initiatives, reform immigration and more, including $500 million for the Department of Homeland Security’s ...
The Senate has advanced toward debating its version of the fiscal year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act after opting to consider a $250 billion China competition package as a standalone item rather than as part of the annual defense policy legislation. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer ...
Russia’s failure so far to stop criminal actors inside its country from conducting ransomware attacks against targets in the U.S. despite a warning from President Biden over the summer to knock it off or face consequences is troubling some Democrats in the House. “It seems to me that Russia has ...
A procedural vote in the Senate to begin consideration of the fiscal year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was delayed Wednesday morning following disagreements over whether to include a $250 billion China competition package with the defense policy bill. The move received pushback ...
In several high-profile ransomware attacks this year against corporations there was no single point of contact in the federal government for companies to alert, demonstrating the need for the federal government to clarify who should be contacted in such an event, says a new report by the House ...