GOP's 'Big Beautiful' Bill with $8.5 Billion for Military Quality-of-Life Boost Passes House The Pentagon funding could provide a much-needed boost to barracks maintenance, military health care and other areas that...
VA Shuffles Money from Canceled Contracts While Keeping Congress Mostly in the Dark The Department of Veterans Affairs is starting to move money from canceled contracts to other accounts even as it has yet to...
Homeland Security Looks to Buy New $50M Jet for Kristi Noem and Coast Guard Officials The request for funding, to come from the Coast Guard's 2025 fiscal year budget, came up during a House appropriations...
Trump Budget Would Cut Ocean Data and Leave Boaters, Anglers and Forecasters Scrambling for Info Sweeping research cuts in President Donald Trump's proposed budget would target an ocean-monitoring system that scientists...
One Trillion Dollars?! Nine Charts to Help Demystify the Pentagon's Budget Golden Dome, shipbuilding, warrior ethos: Here’s your primer to start following the Defense Department’s billions.
Veteran Committee Chairman Requests Federal Investigation of Former VA Secretary, Other Biden Officials Rep. Mike Bost, R-Ill., seeks a legal review of the VA's request for supplemental funding last year after determining it...
Marines Using Work-Arounds to Fund Duty Station Moves, Bonuses amid Congress' Stopgap Funding Marine Corps leaders said they have cleared backlogs of delayed duty station moves and are working to whittle down delayed...
House Democrats Force Republicans Into Votes on Hegseth Controversies During Pentagon Budget Debate While debating a $150 billion Pentagon spending bill Tuesday, Democrats offered several amendments to address the drama...
Republicans Unveil Pentagon Portion of Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill' with Extra Money for Barracks The quality-of-life funding is part of the $150 billion for the Defense Department that Republicans are proposing in a wide...
DC Weighs Layoffs and Other Cuts as House Leaves Capital City in Budget Limbo Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser tried to keep the focus on a groundbreaking ceremony for a new mixed-used development. But she...
Exclusive: John Ripley, the Marine Who Blew Up the Dong Ha Bridge, to Receive the Medal of Honor More than 50 years after hanging beneath a Vietnam bridge to stop a North Vietnamese armored invasion, Marine Col. John...
From Iraq to Iran: How Congress Handed Over War Powers to the Presidency The 9/11 attacks were a sea change in U.S. foreign policy and diminished congressional authority, with partisanship on...
Left Face Down in the Mud: How an Air Force Veteran, Amputee Found Hope A life-changing injury and having to raise three kids alone made Jason Morgan more resolute in the long run.
After the Knock on the Door: How TAPS Supports Military Families for Life After a service member dies, families face a lifetime of grief. TAPS founder Bonnie Carroll explains how the organization...
SNL Mocks Iran Conflict as Pete Hegseth Calls It a ‘Situationship’ “This isn’t a war, it’s a situationship.” SNL skewers tensions with Iran in a wild press briefing sketch starring Colin Jost...
