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Jonathan Bydlak, R Street Institute Andrew Lautz, National Taxpayers Union Mackenzie Eaglen, Resident Fellow at American Enterprise Institute (AEI) On the second webinar of the Pentagon Purse Strings series, Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Brian Riedl—a federal budget expert—will join National Taxpayers Union’s (NTU) Andrew Lautz and R Street’s Jonathan Bydlak to discuss the upcoming budget battle over reconciliation. Riedl, Lautz and Bydlak will also talk about what the end of the Bu...

By TARA COPP | McClatchy Washington Bureau | Published: February 11, 2021 WASHINGTON (Tribune News Service) — Army National Guard Black Hawk helicopters will keep flying despite a string of crashes and strain on the fleet, the service told McClatchy, amid concerns from some lawmakers and defense experts that doing so could put additional lives at risk. Three crashes in just over a year, including one last week of an Army Idaho National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk “have claimed the lives of nin...

Odd couple: How a Republican senator and Biden’s defense secretary became friends downrange January 29 WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 19: U.S. Army (retired) General Lloyd Austin (C) speaks with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) (L) and Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) before testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing to be the next Secretary of Defense on January 19, 2021 in Washington, DC. Austin is the first African-American to have headed U.S. Central Command. (Photo...

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POLITICO ‘Really quite shocking’: Inside the ugly transition at the Pentagon The effort to obstruct the Biden team is unprecedented in modern presidential transitions and will hobble the new administration on key national security matters. Tensions between the Pentagon and the Biden agency landing team emerged almost the moment the General Services Administration authorized the transition to begin. | Stephanie Keith/Getty Images Link Copied The Pentagon blocked members of President Joe Bide...

US Navy’s No. 2 civilian claims leadership shouldn’t be blamed for old failures. Some disagree. January 14 A T-45 Goshawk transits the flight deck aboard the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford. (MCSN Zack Guth/U.S. Navy) WASHINGTON — In an eyebrow-raising statement, the acting undersecretary of the U.S. Navy complained about congressional oversight of naval programs, suggesting that current leaders shouldn’t be held responsible for previous administrations’ failures. “You shouldn�...

It will take time for the Biden administration to build its national security and defense strategies. In the absence of a new defense strategy, the most logical route for Congress would be to plan a two-year budget deal that buys back readiness and investment lost to the Budget Control Act. By   Mackenzie Eaglen on January 10, 2021 at 4:58 PM

In USA’s economic and health crisis – nuclear weapons spending is booming Roughly 50,000 Americans are now involved in making nuclear warheads at eight principal sites stretching from California to South Carolina. And the three principal U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories — located in Los Alamos and Albuquerque, N.M., and Livermore, Calif. — have said they are adding thousands of new workers at a time when the overall federal workforce is shrinking. “the insane idea that after a pand...

While the country has been preoccupied with the COVID-19 pandemic, economic decline and the election, President Trump’s administration quietly and steadily steered America’s nuclear weapons industry to its largest expansion since the end of the Cold War, increasing spending on such arms

Roughly 50,000 Americans are now involved in making nuclear warheads at eight principal sites stretching from California to South Carolina. And the three principal U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories — located in Los Alamos and Albuquerque, N.M., and Livermore, Calif. — have said they are adding thousands of new workers at a time when the overall…