The House and Senate proposed Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Acts (FY24 NDAA) are set for floor adoptions, a summer of intra-chamber conferencing, and hopeful adoption by late September. Both proposed FY24 NDAAs, or next fiscal year’s national defense budget, reflect the same $886.3 billion top-line figure submitted by President Joe Biden in March…
Senate’s $886 Billion Defense Budget Similar to House Plan, But With Less ‘Anti-Woke’ Focus
June 26, 2023
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House Republicans Want to Openly Debate Imposing ‘Oil Naval’ Blockade on China
June 22, 2023
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The House Armed Services Committee has adopted an amendment to the proposed United States’ defense budget calling on the Pentagon to present it with a plan spelling out how it would impose a naval blockade on China. Despite objections from Democrats and reservations voiced by several Republicans about publicly—and potentially, provocatively—discussing what amounts to an…
Defense Bill That Defunds DEI, Provides Compensation for Vaccine-Related Discharges Advances in House
June 22, 2023
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All things considered, adopting a 416-page, near-$1 trillion spending plan with more than 800 amendments over a 14-1/2 hour span—including more than 11 in deliberative, often heated, debate—is a good day’s work for a congressional committee. So, there was a bit of congratulatory relief as the clocked crawled toward 12:30 a.m. on June 22 when…
House Panel Rejects Bid to Boost Ukraine Funding by $500 Million in US Defense Budget
June 22, 2023
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The House Armed Services Committee on June 22 rejected a proposed amendment within the proposed U.S. defense budget calling for a $500 million boost in a fund that allows the Pentagon and Biden administration to dispatch assistance to Ukraine without Congressional approval. The measure was among 800 amendments approved by the committee in moving the…
US Space Force Getting off the Ground Despite Colorado-Alabama HQ Squabble
June 15, 2023
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A measure within the proposed Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) defense budget grounds U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall until he issues an oft-delayed, politically fraught decision on moving the newly-created Space Force’s headquarters from Colorado to Alabama. The stipulation was placed within the draft $874.2 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) by House Armed Services…
US Army, Air Force Budget Requests Not Geared to Check China: Subcommittee Chair
June 15, 2023
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A lot of facts are built into the proposed 412-page Fiscal Year (FY24) U.S. defense budget, nearly $1 trillion worth of them. But trends in budget requests from the service branches under the Biden administration make at least two “immutable facts” stand out to Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.). “First, the Army does not have sufficient…
Proposed $874 Billion Defense Budget Cleared for House Hearings Beginning Next Week
June 14, 2023
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After nearly five months of hearings, the House Armed Forces Committee’s six subcommittees on June 13 quickly and unanimously adopted their components of the proposed $874.2 billion fiscal year 2024 (FY24) national defense budget. The next stop for the draft National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), filed as House Bill 2670, is its first hearing before…
Proposed House Budget Demands US Navy Float More Boats Than It’s Asking For
June 14, 2023
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It’s not likely this has happened often, if ever, in the annals of haggles over U.S. military budgets: Congress is demanding the Navy float more boats than it wants to. But that’s the case with the House Armed Services Committee’s Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee approving a proposed spending plan that calls for construction of…
Navy Says It Needs a Budget, Not a Stopgap Funding Bill, to Meet China Threat
April 28, 2023
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As America’s forward-deployed military force, the United States Navy and its Marine Corps deal with daily provocations from the “seabed to the stars” across the globe. Contending with an expanding Chinese navy in the South China Sea, responding to North Korea’s missile launches, staying on station in the Black Sea despite Russian harassment, these are…
House Republicans Probe Preferred Pronoun ‘Role Play’ at West Point
March 22, 2023
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House Armed Services Committee members Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.) are seeking answers from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point after learning cadets were forced to participate in sensitivity training on “understanding and respecting” others’ preferred pronouns. According to the “facilitator guide” obtained by The Epoch Times, the required training involved a…
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