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Proposed Reshuffling of Nuclear Modernization Funds Won’t Hurt USAF, Service Chief Says

Wednesday, March 4th, 2020

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Proposed Reshuffling of Nuclear Modernization Funds Won’t Hurt USAF, Service Chief Says

The Air Force will not be affected in fiscal year 2021 if Congress approves the White House’s plan to short the Pentagon budget by $2.5 billion to increase the National Nuclear Security Administration civilian nuclear-weapons budgets by 25% year-over-year, the service’s chief of staff said Wednesday. “The $2.5 [billion] didn’t have an impact on the Air Force, ” Air Force Gen. David Goldfein, the service’s chief of staff, told Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) during a Wednesday hearing of the House…

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Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday the Trump administration plans to continue its push for at least $350 billion in defense funds via the reconciliation process “regardless of what happens […]

Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

A small, bipartisan group of senators is backing the Fast Tracking European Investment in Ukraine’s Defense Act, S. 5175, to hasten the export of allied buys of U.S. munitions for […]

Congress

Rep. Himes Signals Increased Contractor Oversight, if Democrats Win House

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, plans to increase the committee’s contractor oversight if the Democrats win control of the House […]

Congress

CBO Estimates Loss of One-Half to Two-Thirds of U.S. Missile Interceptors Since June Last Year

A new Congressional Budget Office report estimates the cost of the Iran war through Aug. 1 as $38 billion and says that the U.S. has likely depleted between one-half and […]