The Coast Guard is facing scrutiny after a recent report cited ongoing failures in how the service has reported cases of sexual assault and harassment.
Congress is backing increases to the size of the military, having passed and proposed final legislation that will raise and fund rises in end strength.
Senate Republicans have voted to dismiss a war powers resolution that would have limited President Trump’s ability to conduct further attacks on Venezuela.
A legal memo that came out days before the U.S. military operation said such a move would “not rise to the level of a war in the constitutional sense.”