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AUKUS standoff: Australia, UK wait on Congress to approve pact
AUKUS was announced two years ago. Now Congress must pass several bills to make the pact work, from export controls to submarine transfer authorities.
Defense industry frets as funding talks crawl
Despite repeated warnings from lawmakers and uniformed Pentagon leaders that a full-year continuing resolution will hurt national security, some in the defense industry are still worried that budgetary route is a possibility.
By Joe Gould
Congress passes defense policy bill with budget boost, military justice reforms
After months of debate and weeks of angst, the Senate has sent its annual defense bill to the president.
$1B Iron Dome fund stripped from new continuing resolution
A proposal to send Israel $1 billion for the Iron Dome air defense system has been cut out of a stopgap government funding bill, meant to avoid a government shutdown after Sept. 30, in order to ease its passage in the House.
By Joe Gould
Few answers for Afghan evacuees seeking safe passage to Kabul airport
State Department officials said they are negotiating with Taliban leaders to allow more American citizens and Afghan nationals access to the evacuation site.
Big VA budget boost on track as Senate panel backs $270 billion spending plan
The Senate appropriations committee advanced the spending plan on Wednesday by a bipartisan 25-5 vote.
Troops younger than 21 could again buy, use tobacco products under proposed change
The idea would carve out an exception for military members in the federal law setting the minimum age to buy cigarettes and other tobacco products.
Afghan president set to visit White House as security situation in his country worsens
Ashraf Ghani will meet with President Joe Biden to discuss long-term military assistance to follow the withdrawal of all American forces from Afghanistan this fall.
House repeals 2002 war authorization, with Senate action coming next
The House voted Thursday to repeal the 2002 authorization of military force against Iraq, a step that supporters say is necessary to constrain presidential war powers even though it is unlikely to affect U.S. military operations around the world.
By Joe Gould
Biden defense budget, coming Friday, is under pressure from both sides
Details of President Joe Biden’s first defense budget won’t be out until Friday, but lawmakers on the left and right have already drawn out their lines for the battle ahead.
Senate rejects defense spending ‘parity’ amendment
The Senate sank a Republican proposal meant to boost defense spending by binding Congress to equal increases to defense and nondefense spending.
By Joe Gould