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Air, Naval Forces Eating into Army’s Share of Budget BUDGET 7/19/2021 Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Alex Perlman President Joe Biden’s 2022 budget would continue a trend of providing a growing portion of the military’s resources to air and naval forces— raising questions about how low the Army’s topline will go as a share of the Pentagon’s fiscal pie in coming years. Air and naval forces went from a 48 percent share of the defense budget in 2013 to a 52 percent share in 2021, while the portion going to ground forces shrank from 35 percent...

‘RALLY THE WORLD'S DEMOCRACIES’: President Joe Biden departs this morning on the first overseas trip of his term, which begins with a meeting of G-7 ministers in Cornwall, includes a NATO summit in Brussels, and ends with a face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva.

Biden speaks about his plan to tackle Covid-19: "Help is on the way" From CNN's Betsy Klein and Veronica Stracqualursi President Joe Biden speaks about the Covid-19 response in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 21. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images President Biden unveiled his national strategy on Covid-19 to tackle the coronavirus pandemic during remarks today at the White House. Biden said his strategy was created in response to address the past administration's failure to act with "the urgency and focus and coordination we needed."  "Things are going t...

Border wall: Defense Department slams brakes on project as it reviews Biden order CNN 1/21/2021 By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN © Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images TOPSHOT - A crew works replacing the old border fence along a section of the US-Mexico border, as seen from Tijuana, in Baja California state, Mexico, on January 8, 2019. - President Donald Trump tells Americans in a primetime speech Tuesday that the US-Mexico border is in "crisis" and Congress must approve construction of a wall to end a government shutdown now in its 18th day. (Photo by Guillermo Arias / AFP) (Photo...