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By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on June 01, 2021 at 11:06 AM USS Dewey (DDG 105) fires an SM-2 missile. WASHINGTON: The chairman of the House seapower subcommittee, Rep. Joe Courtney, fired a shot across the bow of the White House shipbuilding budget, questioning its proposed cuts to surface warships. An even more prominent Democrat, Senate Armed Services chairman Jack Reed, signaled loud and clear he plans to treat the Biden budget as a rough draft, not gospel. While Reed didn’t cite specific areas of disagreement the way Courtney did, he sounded sympathetic to pleas for higher spending. R...

Fri, 05/28/2021 - 4:31am -- tim by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) The Budget Control Act of 2011 expires this year, and that is a good thing. This law led to a decade of underfunding our domestic priorities, from which it will take years to recover.  Right now, in communities across the country, our infrastructure is crumbling, millions of Americans cannot access federal programs for which they qualify, and we are falling behind in investing in science, research, and development on the global economic stage. All of this because the Budget Control Act set artificial and unrealistically low...

'Doesn't matter': Democrats reject GOP's debt limit demands POLITICO 2 hrs ago By Burgess Everett, Caitlin Emma and Jennifer Scholtes © Stefani Reynolds/Pool/Getty Images Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who filibustered that previous bill to ensure Democrats had to have some Republican votes to raise the debt ceiling, indicated he will reprise his prior tactics. Senate Republicans dramatically changed their party rules to take a hard line on the debt limit in the coming months. Democrats don't care. In fact, the Democratic majority says it has no intention of negotiating with Re...