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In its latest gargantuan defense budget bill, Congress quietly eliminated the Pentagon's top spending watchdog
The Pentagon gets a big budget every year, and now there's one less person to track how it spends t…
Jonathan Bydlak, Responsible …
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House lawmakers slap down Trump's veto of $740 billion defense bill, now heads to Senate for final showdown
The House vote to override Trump's veto sets up the scene for the first potential override by both …
David Choi
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'Childish' and 'reckless': Lawmakers sound the alarm after Trump fires his defense secretary weeks before a presidential transition
"President Trump is intent on using his final days in office to sow chaos in our American Democracy…
David Choi
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Trump urges House Republicans to vote against the $740 billion defense bill unless it revokes Section 230, an unrelated internet law that the president hates
The president's war against tech companies is jeopardizing a "must-pass" spending package that fund…
Oma Seddiq
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Republicans just took a big step toward giving Trump his massive military parade through Washington
The annual defense bill, slated for release on Monday afternoon, will include language that will pr…
Joe Perticone
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LIVE UPDATES: Watch the results for all of Texas' Senate and House primaries
While Texas is a long way from becoming a blue state, Democrats are hoping to keep it competitive. …
Grace Panetta
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Trump's threat of national emergency declaration to fund the border wall is leaving Capitol Hill in shock
"There is a humanitarian crisis at the border in some of the detention facilities and some of the t…
Joe Perticone
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IT'S OFFICIAL: Trump declares national emergency to build his border wall
"Doing so would have detrimental consequences for our troops as military infrastructure was one of …
Joe Perticone
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Nancy Pelosi led a bipartisan delegation to Jordan to talk Middle East peace amid the Syrian crisis
The members of the US House delegation were Representatives Adam Schiff, Eliot Engel (Chairman of t…
Kat Tenbarge
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Trump's proposed military budget appears to be very much like the 'Obama approach'
"As we'll see with the '18 budget, the one defense dollar up and one non-defense dollar down trade …
David Choi
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Trump wants to slash the number of US troops in Germany, and it could be a win for Russia
"It looks like amateur hour" to US adversaries, a security expert said of Trump's plans to drastica…
Ryan Pickrell
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Top lawmakers sent a letter to the Pentagon warning about special operations on the same day the official overseeing them resigned
"We are concerned that the factors described above and that lack of a confirmed ASD SOLIC, Principa…
Christopher Woody
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The US Pacific commander says Kim Jong Un wants nuclear weapons to conquer South Korea
"The dominant view is he wants missiles and nuclear weapons in order to safeguard his regime," Thor…
Travis J. Tritten
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Trump reportedly told the Pentagon to increase the defense budget to $750 billion after saying he would cut spending by 5%
Politico's sources said that that Trump met Tuesday with Mattis and the Republican chairmen of the …
Shana Lebowitz
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Another government shutdown looms as funding runs out in a week and Democrats are still undecided about Trump's border well
"If he doesn't get what he wants, he has that option to declare an emergency," Democratic Rep. Henr…
Joe Perticone
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The US is trying to boost its military ties with India, but Russian weapons are getting in the way
The discussions - part of preparations for the 2+2 dialogue between the two countries' foreign and …
Christopher Woody
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The US government is okay with India’s purchase of Russian weapons for now, but not for much longer
The Indian government will likely welcome the news of the waiver since its about to sign a large…
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India says it's going ahead with a major Russian arms deal, and the US may have already backed itself into a corner
"With Russia, we have had a continuous relationship of defence procurement of seven decades. We tol…
Christopher Woody
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Iraqi leaders are claiming a Republican-backed US law is part of a plot to break up the country
This strategy has run into numerous problems. The Iraqi military has proven less than capable on th…
Jeremy Bender
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The chances of another government shutdown are rising after border security negotiations hit a serious snag
"We're continuing to build a lot of wall with, as we would say in business, 'cash on hand.'" he add…