Defense
Senate Advances War Powers Challenge to Trump Iran Policy
The Senate voted Wednesday to advance S.J.Res. 185, a joint resolution directing the removal of U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities against Iran not...
Senate Challenges $1.5T Defense Budget Over Iran War Strategy
Why it matters: The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense held a contentious hearing on May 12 to examine the administration's $1.5 trillion fiscal...
Air Force Hides True Scope of Aircraft Maintenance Crisis
The U.S. Air Force is struggling to keep its aircraft combat-ready, and a new federal watchdog report says the problem runs deeper than publicly...
Navy Faces July Funding Crisis Amid Budget Doubts
Why it matters: The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense's Navy budget hearing on May 12 exposed a stark funding crisis: the Navy will run out of...
Pentagon Cuts Hypersonic Budget Amid Rival Deployments
A new Congressional Research Service report on hypersonic boost-glide weapons lands at a moment of genuine strategic tension: the Pentagon's budget request...
Weapons Spending Surges While Nonproliferation Programs Cut
The National Nuclear Security Administration's FY2027 budget request is asking Congress to approve $32.80 billion for nuclear security funding in 2027, a 29...
Trump Administration Skirts Congress on Arms Sales
The United States has a formal process for selling weapons to foreign governments. Congress wrote the rules. But a new Congressional Research Service report...
Spectrum Auction Threatens National Security and Telecom Survival
A high-stakes wireless spectrum auction set to begin June 2 is putting billions of dollars, national security priorities, and the financial survival of a...
Air Force Budget: Modernization Claims Face Readiness Scrutiny
The House Armed Services Committee's review of the Department of the Air Force Fiscal Year 2027 Budget is arriving at a moment of genuine tension between...
Aircraft Losses From Iran Conflict Go Unanswered
The United States lost or damaged 42 aircraft during Operation Epic Fury, a military campaign launched February 28, 2026, in coordination with Israel...
Senate Debates Record Navy Budget Increase Amid Concerns
The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Department of Defense is set to examine a Navy budget request that, if approved, would represent the largest...
Senate Scrutinizes Record Air Force Budget Request
The Senate Armed Services Committee's Air Force hearing 2026 puts a record $338.8 billion budget request under congressional scrutiny at a moment when the...
House Passes $157 Billion Veterans and Military Construction Bill With Rare Bipartisan Support
The House passed the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2027 on Friday, sending a $157 billion...
Senate Demands Answers on Pentagon's Mysterious Weapon
The Senate Armed Services Committee is set to receive a classified briefing on anomalous health incidents on May 20, 2026, a session that arrives as the...
Pentagon Budget Under Scrutiny in Senate
The White House's proposal to cut Pentagon research and development spending by roughly one-third, a reduction of approximately $4.5 billion, sets the...
Yemen's Unresolved War Poses Compounding Risks for U.S. Policy
A new Congressional Research Service report on the Yemen crisis lands at a fraught moment, as the Trump Administration navigates a ceasefire with the...
Russia's Military Expansion in Nicaragua Threatens U.S. Hemisphere
Russia just ratified a military cooperation pact with Nicaragua — one that grants Russian personnel special jurisdictional immunity on Nicaraguan soil — and...
Senate Blocks War Powers Challenge to Iran Operations for Eighth Time
The Senate on Thursday failed to advance S.J.Res. 163, a joint resolution that would have directed the removal of U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities with...