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Hawks File Bill to Prohibit Spending on Nuke Treaty Extension Talks

Wednesday, November 28th, 2018

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Hawks File Bill to Prohibit Spending on Nuke Treaty Extension Talks

Low angled view of the U.S. Capitol East Facade Front in Washington, DC.

A bill introduced Wednesday by Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), and supported by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), would prohibit the Trump administration from extending the primary U.S.-Russia nuclear arms-control treaty beyond 2021 without renegotiating the deal to curtail shorter-range Russian missiles. The ‘‘Stopping Russian Nuclear Aggression Act’’ would prohibit the executive branch from spending any money in 2019 or beyond to negotiate an extension to the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START): a bilateral deal signed in 2010 that caps the…

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Munitions Fired Represent Most of $25 Billion Spent By Pentagon on Iran War So Far

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Slotkin: Pentagon Should Use Anthropic’s Mythos To Spot Cyber Security Gaps

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Budd And Shaheen Bill Would Authorize 329 F-15EX Fighters

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HASC’s Wittman Sees ‘Challenging’ Push For $350B In Reconciliation Funds, Wants Sustained Defense Increase

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.– Congress’ work to pass $350 billion in reconciliation funds to support the Trump administration’s push for a $1.5 trillion fiscal year 2027 defense topline is “going to […]