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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 Budget Control Act (BCA), means for federal spending broadly and for the defense budget specifically. ...

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 nine members of our National Guard,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., wrote to Defense Secretary Lloy...

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 by Jim Lo Scalzo-Pool/Getty Images) WASHINGTON ― Long before he was U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, he w...

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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 Biden’s incoming administration from gaining access to critical information about current operations, ...