Defense Spending

"Have the words 'win' and 'victory' been purged from the administration's vocabulary when it comes to Ukraine?" Senator Tom Cotton asked.

A gargantuan defense budget doesn't necessarily buy the American people more security.

Less than 1 percent of the Pentagon's new $782 billion budget is marked for Kyiv. About 50 times as much will go to for-profit corporations.

"We urge [the U.S.] to discard the obsolete Cold War zero-sum mentality and ideological bias," Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian said.

The ban was included in the bill after South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem accepted $1 million in July to send National Guard troops to the southern U.S. border.

The $768 billion annual defense bill also includes changes to how sexual assault cases are handled in the military, and proposals for a war on terror memorial.

The updated version of the proposed spending bill came on the same day President Biden met virtually with Russia President Vladimir Putin.

Today, American elites are retreating from hard diplomacy, disarming the military and appeasing their nation's rivals.

"Simply put, as the selective service system is currently written it is unconstitutional and discriminates based on sex," Representative Chrissy Houlahan said.

President Joe Biden has talked the talk about pushing back on Chinese aggression, but the real marker of whether his administration is serious about competition with China will be its proposed defense budget.

Dr. Kathleen Hicks appears set for an easy and quick Senate confirmation

Wyoming Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney said Thursday that Kentucky Senator Rand Paul's opposition to the bill was "inexcusable."

The 2021 National Defense Authorization Act passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, despite warnings from President Donald Trump that he could veto the legislation.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the defense spending bill by a veto-proof majority on Tuesday.

At a May 15 meeting of senior officials representing the top national security agencies, the Trump Administration floated the idea of testing nuclear weapons.

Trump has repeatedly said that he will not consider any provision to rename U.S. military bases bearing the names of Confederate soldiers.

NATO defense spending has jumped over $100 billion a year from 2016 to 2019.

President Donald Trump is battling NATO allies over funding for the Cold War defense alliance, but it is a complex debate.

The 2019 U.S. federal deficit increased 26 percent over 2018 and has more than doubled since 2015, the Treasury Department said Friday.

President Donald Trump has often expressed views favorable to the Kremlin, but when it comes to NATO spending, Moscow disagrees.

The countries that spend the most on their armies, in proportion to their means.

A Chinese military report said "the U.S. armed forces have failed to live up to Trump's expectations" due to "scandals like ship collisions, drug abuses and rapes."

For once the U.S. doesn't top this list—and China doesn't even make the top 50.

North Korea is growing increasingly wary of the U.S.'s intentions ahead of a historic meeting between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump.

The real rise would probably be at least double what China revealed, one senior Asia diplomat said.

Pentagon officials say the huge budget will prioritize modernizing the military to prepare for conflict with major world powers.

Citing time crunch, Democratic opposition, Republicans are weighing major policies and nominees without the usual oversight.

Officials have stolen $15 billion in federal defense funds, resulting in an army that is ill-equipped and unprepared.

The Navy is going forward with plans to purchase its variant of the F-35 jet, which has been described as the most expensive weapon system ever.

The president wants to boost defense spending and gut funding for other agencies.