The Annual, Depressing 'Do Your Job Week' in Congress
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Why does the newest branch of the U.S. military need horses?
Boeing reports that the two new presidential shuttles its building will now be $2 billion over budget.
Senate Republicans have raised reasonable objections that legislation covering veterans' health conditions linked to toxic burn pits will allow for more spending on unrelated items.
Poor accounting practices mean the Department of Defense can't even tell how much money or equipment it has lost.
Under Biden, Trump, and Obama, government federal spending almost doubled.
Iraq and Afghanistan veterans wouldn't have to show any link between their service and a long list of medical conditions to obtain government-funded healthcare.
Mourn the end of a too-brief interlude of relative peace and prosperity.
GAO: Congress has been buying planes that lack crucial parts and haven't undergone full testing, so costly upgrades will eventually be needed.
The proposed defense budget reaches $813 billion, and politicians still can’t think critically about how to spend it.
The president's new budget plan calls on Congress to tax wealthy Americans' unrealized capital gains.
Congress continues to allocate funds to produce weapons that the Pentagon itself says it doesn't need.
We can't afford to keep funding defense contractors' cost overruns.
With minimal debate, Selective Service was doubled in a "must-pass" $778 billion defense bill.
Thank the troops, but question the uses to which they’re put.
Neither side needs military aid funded by U.S. taxpayers.
Many U.S. complaints about China aren’t about actions that threaten U.S. security.
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Auditors now say the military may be able to pass an audit before the end of the next decade, so at least that's something.
If we can't trim the Pentagon's budget this year, will we ever?
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Much of the military spending in the GOP's HEALS Act replaces funding that was redirected to pay for Trump's border wall.
"Absent policy changes, the federal government continues to face an unsustainable long-term fiscal path," America's top auditor warns. But is anyone listening?
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Neither party is serious about reining in spending. This is unsustainable.
Despite the failure, Pentagon officials are spinning the audit as a step in the right direction.
He's wrong on both counts.
An ever-growing military budget is yet another illustration of the GOP's abandonment of small-government principles. And Democrats aren't any better.
The depressing bipartisan consensus on ever-increasing defense spending shows no sign of breaking down anytime soon.
State-level licensing laws can make it nearly impossible for workers to move from place to place, and that's a particular problem for military spouses. This bipartisan proposal could be a step towards fixing it.
No one wants to consider if casually blowing things up is a good idea in the first place.
Should the Senate majority leader really be celebrating more reckless spending?
If the Space Force goes down before it ever got up on its feet, that's probably for the best.
Is another bureaucracy really going to solve the problem?
"It was not very hard" to get the spending bill through Congress, Trump said. And he's definitely right about that.
The firebrand Michigan congressman unloads on the GOP leadership's unwillingness to shrink government's size, scope, and spending.
Republicans prove yet again why they deserve to be labeled the biggest swamp spenders.
The way to achieve peace is not to prepare for war but to reject militarism and empire, and embrace nonintervention.
Because national defense is our government's top priority, Pentagon spending demands close scrutiny
Both parties agree on more spending and bigger deficits.
Meanwhile, Trump and congressional Republicans want to remove spending caps for the Defense Department.
But he's diminished the strength of that demand since taking office.