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Earlier this month, the White House released an outline of its fiscal 2022 budget request that provided top-line dollar amounts for federal government agencies. The budget outline called for $753 billion for defense, including $715 billion for the Pentagon, modest increases over this year. But the outline provided no specifics on what the money would buy, with the White House saying a more detailed budget request would follow later. New administrations typically do not meet the usual March time frame to deliver Congress a budget request. But the Biden administration has blamed obfuscation by the Trump team during the presidential transition for delaying its budget even more than normal for a new administration. ....
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Pelosi voiced her anger at Trump on the call “The president chose to be an insurrectionist,” she said but she’s hoping the threat of impeachment will increase pressure on Pence to act. “Impeachment encourages conversation on the 25th Amendment. That’s picked up a lot of steam,” the Speaker said on Friday’s call. “How we go forward is a subject for this caucus.” ADVERTISEMENT Yet on a separate call a day earlier, Pelosi appeared to be leaning toward the impeachment route and told her leadership team that Trump’s actions had left them no choice, sources said. Pelosi planned to speak with Biden by phone on Friday afternoon. The president-elect said earlier in the day it was up to the Congress to decide whether to press forward with impeachment so close to Inauguration Day. ....
In a letter to colleagues reflecting on the week when pro-Trump rioters breached the Capitol, Pelosi outlined a call with Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley “This morning, I spoke to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley to discuss available precautions for preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike,” she wrote. “The situation of this unhinged president could not be more dangerous, and we must do everything that we can to protect the American people from his unbalanced assault on our country and our democracy.” ....