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The commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command includes additional funding for missile defense in Guam and Hawaii in a budget wish list sent to Congress.

Top Pentagon leaders defended President Joe Biden’s flat defense budget request to lawmakers on Thursday and its “hard choices” to slash legacy weapons programs in favor of developing technologies, as a hedge against China.

‘RALLY THE WORLD'S DEMOCRACIES’: President Joe Biden departs this morning on the first overseas trip of his term, which begins with a meeting of G-7 ministers in Cornwall, includes a NATO summit in Brussels, and ends with a face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva.

Federal unemployment benefits with those 20 plus states no longer taking the extra $300 a week saying that its deterring people from going back to work. young said that she hasnt met americans that dont want to work and the white house has historically defended these benefits as a critical life line. they have asserted the benefits are not the primary shortage and touting progress in the jobs report. graham said even before the hearing this budget request was dead on arrival. >> over a ten-year ...

Projects left out of 2022 budget would boost Cheyenne Mountain security, space-based cryptology.

During the first month of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the nation's top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, fielded thousands of emails from people far and wide.

Jun. 4—After the current administration released its $6 trillion FY2022 budget proposal last week, Congressman Tom Cole criticized the proposal, calling it "misguided" and "unnecessary." Last week President Joe Biden introduced his proposed budget, which taps out at $6 trillion. The budget includes safety net programs for the poor and middle class funded through taxing corporations and ...

Legislative Watch: Biden proposes $6 Trillion budget; USDA budget would increase broadband, research and nutrition funding. House Agriculture chairman David Scott, D-Ga., is raising objections with the administrations proposal to eliminate stepped-up basis, saying it "cannot be borne by the next generation of farmers taking over the land." Scott wrote in a letter to President Biden, "Any increase in inheritance tax for those taking over farm land is untenable and will further strain a far...

Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital - Congress. The House and the Senate are not in session this week. The Senate is expected to return to Senate Majority Leader Chuck...

Fifteen House lawmakers are calling on appropriators to fully fund a $4.7 billion request for the Pacific Deterrence Initiative amid criticism President Joe Biden’s new defense budget submission has missed the mark.