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House passes defense spending bill amid F-35, submarine purchase spats

The House on Friday passed 217-198 its annual defense spending bill for fiscal 2025, with appropriators rebuffing intense bipartisan pressure from their colleagues over...

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Defense spending bill would defund Biden’s Gaza pier

The House Appropriations Committee on Thursday advanced its fiscal 2025 defense spending bill while adding a provision that would eliminate the military’s makeshift pier...

Space Force’s Resilient GPS program draws skepticism from lawmakers

A congressional appropriations panel cast some doubt on whether a U.S. Space Force effort to protect its GPS system from signal jamming will be...

White House takes aim at shipbuilding, other measures in defense bill

The White House on Tuesday released a statement taking aim at several measures in the House’s fiscal 2025 defense policy bill ahead of votes...

House bill funds new tranche of Philippines, Taiwan military aid

House Appropriations Committee Republicans released their fiscal year 2025 State Department spending bill this week, which will be considered by the full committee next...

A New Angle on Cannabis Banking Protections

Sometimes I’ll write about cannabis banking when I’m working on a project for a bank or credit union, but newsworthy developments on cannabis banking...

Defense spending bill forces Israel arms transfers, nixes Ukraine aid

The House defense spending panel on Wednesday advanced the first draft of its annual Pentagon funding bill over objections from Democrats, who cited a...

House defense spending bill nixes funding for second Virginia sub

The House’s annual Pentagon spending bill only funds the procurement of one Virginia-class attack submarine for fiscal 2025 instead of two vessels as it...

Proposed House spending bill would add more F-35s

A proposed defense spending bill the House of Representatives released Tuesday would fund eight more F-35 Joint Strike Fighters in fiscal 2025 than the...

Wittman sure US Navy will buy two attack subs in 2025 — like it or not

A powerful member of the House Armed Services Committee has said in no uncertain terms that Congress would force the Navy to buy two...

Congressional letter seeks big increase in NASA science budget

WASHINGTON — More than 40 House members have signed a letter asking for a significant increase in NASA’s science budget for 2025, a request...

Nelson lobbies Congress to fund ISS deorbit vehicle in supplemental spending bill

WASHINGTON — NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told a House committee that budget caps forced cuts to agency programs while pleading with them to include...

Congress’ Pentagon budget increase is in need of transparency

Buried deep in the funding tables of the recently passed fiscal 2024 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, lawmakers added over 1,000 separate program increases...

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