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House panel to mark up annual defense authorization bill this week
Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of July 14, 2025.
Pentagon budget will shake up ‘legacy’ systems. Lawmakers are shaking back.
Top Pentagon officials are asking Congress to let them use the upcoming budget to shed unneeded weapons in order to invest in forward-looking technologies now. It wasn't an easy conversation.
By Joe Gould
This week in Congress: Biden’s budget due out at last
Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of May 24, 2021.
Biden defense budget, coming Friday, is under pressure from both sides
Details of President Joe Biden’s first defense budget won’t be out until Friday, but lawmakers on the left and right have already drawn out their lines for the battle ahead.
Senate rejects defense spending ‘parity’ amendment
The Senate sank a Republican proposal meant to boost defense spending by binding Congress to equal increases to defense and nondefense spending.
By Joe Gould
Guard leaders eye end to Capitol Hill, border security missions
More than 120,000 Guard troops have been deployed in recent months.
Raise military pay to match minimum wage for federal contract employees
New enlistees should make at least the same amount as a private federal contract worker, says the author of this commentary.
By Anthony Deane
Full FY22 budget coming May 27
It is expected the Pentagon will seek to retire older systems to free up funding in its budget request.
By Aaron Mehta
Liz Cheney: Republicans have a ‘red line’ on Biden’s defense budget
How will Democrats and Republicans come together on defense?
By Joe Gould
Bernie Sanders wants to cut defense spending. Not all Democrats agree.
The left-leaning chairman of the Senate Budget Committee is once again asking you to think about cuts to defense spending.
By Joe Gould