Tag: defense budget
Pentagon seeks $200 billion for Iran war as costs surge and...
Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.
The $5.6 billion opening salvo: inside the staggering cost of Trump’s...
New reporting reveals that the United States burned through billions in munitions within days of launching its assault on Iran, highlighting the scale of the military campaign and its mounting financial and humanitarian toll.
House vote on defense bill pushes annual military spending past $1...
House advances $893 billion defense policy as culture war riders and audit penalties collide with pay raises, troop increases, and a looming Senate clash.
Dear DOGE: Here’s how to cut the Pentagon budget by $100...
While it’s just a starting point, this reduction would allow us to prioritize what truly matters: healthcare, education, infrastructure, and the well-being of our people.
GOP pushes for even larger Pentagon budget amid ‘unconscionable’ profiteering
"Free advice for the speaker of the House: if you want to cut spending so bad, start and end with the Pentagon budget," said one watchdog group.
Congressional amendment opens floodgates for war profiteers and a major ground...
After the catastrophic wars and ballooning U.S. military budgets of the past 25 years, we should be wise by now to the escalatory nature of the vicious spiral in which we are caught.
Cut the defense budget: Rep. Khanna on bloated Pentagon spending, ending...
“If you’re ending the forever war in Afghanistan … then why are we increasing, at the same time, the defense budget?”
Stupidity and blindness have destroyed whatever democracy the US ever had
Republicans AND Democrats are the problem.
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States settle antitrust suit over $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. merger
Critics say a force-majeure clause and a company-appointed editorial board leave the settlement's protections easy to escape.
Unions win settlement forcing Trump administration to rescind shutdown mass-firing policy
The agreement follows a court fight that began after roughly 4,200 federal employees received layoff notices during last fall's 43-day shutdown.
The best comeuppance for the first anti-American administration – perpetual exposure as the seditious...
If Russia or China wanted a Manchurian candidate (a brainwashed stooge who betrays his own background and constituency), could they have surpassed the president harumphing in the White House?
Federal judge orders White House to restore access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico
The order lasts 14 days, and the outlets have until Monday to seek a preliminary injunction after some reporters were briefly turned away despite the ruling.
Why didn’t Netanyahu’s cabinet preempt October 7 (since it knew about it in advance)?
New York Times reporting confirms Israeli leadership had advance intelligence before the October 7 attack, raising fresh questions about why it was not acted on.