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Lawmakers launch investigation into Austin’s health secrecy
The House Armed Services Committee will look into how senior leaders mishandled the defense secretary's hospitalization earlier this month.
To deter Arctic aggression, build the polar fleet we need
America should make substantial investments in its icebreaker industrial base and overall defense industrial base to help preserve its Arctic interest.
By Sen. Roger Wicker
GOP lawmakers plan more hearings, oversight on Afghanistan withdrawal
If GOP leaders win control of either chamber of Congress, expect lawmakers to focus on mistakes by the White House at the end of the U.S. presence there.
Biden vows to send Ukraine more artillery as Congress pushes for military aid czar
President Joe Biden on Tuesday vowed to send more artillery to Kyiv amid a push among some key lawmakers to install a czar overseeing the rapidly increasing flow of U.S. military aid to Ukraine.
Putin’s ‘probably given up’ on Kyiv as Ukraine war enters new phase
“I think Putin has probably given up on his effort to capture the capital city and is now focused on the south and east of the country,” says U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
By Joe Gould
A dozen of Biden’s national security nominees are on hold in the Senate
At least three lawmakers are using the nominees as bargaining chips in talks on various concerns.
Austin, Milley defend weapons cuts in Biden’s defense budget
Top Pentagon leaders defended President Joe Biden’s flat defense budget request to lawmakers on Thursday and its “hard choices” to slash legacy weapons programs in favor of developing technologies, as a hedge against China.
By Joe Gould
Sea power backers propose $25 billion to fix US shipyards
The introduction of the 11-page Shipyard Act comes after President Joe Biden proposed a $2.25 trillion infrastructure package and Republicans made a $568 billion counteroffer.
By Joe Gould
Senate committee sets vote for embattled Pentagon policy nominee Colin Kahl
The Senate Armed Services Committee will vote Wednesday on whether to advance President Joe Biden’s beleaguered nominee for Pentagon policy chief, Colin Kahl, after a rocky few days for the nomination.
By Joe Gould
Defense bill snagged in Trump’s war on social media protections
President Donald Trump has again threatened to veto this year’s defense policy bill, this time over the tech industry’s prized liability shield.
By Joe Gould
Storm clouds await Pentagon’s request for defense industry cash injection
Though the Pentagon is hunting for billions of dollars in a future package to combat the coronavirus pandemic, it looks like the next massive relief bill will be swamped in a partisan fight.
By Joe Gould