Budget

The White House this week said while it generally supports the House’s fiscal year 2022 defense authorization bill, it opposes funding for older platforms that cannot be affordably modernized. “The […]

After a marathon markup session that began Tuesday morning and ended early Wednesday morning, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved a budget reconciliation bill that includes $1.1 billion for […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]