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On Monday, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) claimed there were no supply chain or labor shortages in 2020 when former President Donald Trump was in office. But this is not true.

Pinkerton: Tom Cotton Drafts ‘Beat China’ Plan to Win the ‘Economic Long War’ and Secure America 27 Feb 2021 Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has released an 80-page report, “Beat China: Targeted Decoupling and the Economic Long War,” which, along with other key documents, could serve as a guide for Americans as they think about how to compete with China.  Cotton’s report envisions a Cold War against China—that is, a patient economic, strategic, and ideological struggle to beat China wi...

Cotton calls for speedy bipartisan changes to counter many threats from China Print this article The Biden administration will have to make fast policy changes if it is to limit China’s growing military power, argues Arkansas Republican Tom Cotton, in a pitch that is gaining bipartisan momentum. From Chinese export controls on the rare earth elements used to produce F-35 fighter jets to an outsized U.S. economic dependency that fuels the growth of China’s military, Cotton called for the Bi...

© Getty Images Happy Wednesday and welcome to Overnight Defense. Im Ellen Mitchell, and heres your nightly guide to the latest developments at the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill and beyond. CLICK HERE to subscribe to the newsletter. During a House hearing on the Armed Forces’ response to COVID-19, Rep. Mike Rogers “I think our initial look — and this is of course very early data — is acceptance rates are somewhere in the two-thirds territory, and of course it varies by different groups,�...

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7:00 P.M. ET Please join us for a virtual conversation with two-time college football national champion, Heisman Trophy winner, and New York Times bestselling author Tim Tebow on the recent release of his first children’s book,  Bronco and Friends: A Party to Remember (Publish Date: January 5, 2021), which he says is a book to show “every single boy or girl who reads this book to know that they are unique and that unique is special…even if they’ve been told so many times in their live...