authorizes $7.6 billion for the purchase of 77 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters. The NDAA also prohibits the delivery of F-35s to Turkey, a NATO ally, before completion of a U.S. government report on the country due later this year. President Trump is expected to sign the bill in the ...
Congress Passes Defense Bill, Clinton Threatens VetoAfter weeks of disagreement over an abortion provision, Congress sent President Bill Clinton a $243 billion defense appropriations bill Thursday that includes money for B-2 bombers, missile defense and a military pay raise....
Washington— The House passed a defense policy bill Thursday that authorizes the biggest pay raise for troops in more than two decades, but also leaves behind many of the policy priorities that social conservatives were clamoring for, making for an unusually divisive debate over what is traditionall...
Philippine Congress Passes Autonomy Bill for Volatile Muslim Region More Reuters FILE PHOTO: Residents who returned from evacuation centers walk past a bullet-ridden house believed to have been rented by pro-Islamic State militant group leaders Isnilon Hapilon and Omar Maute before their...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress sent President Joe Biden a short-term spending bill on Thursday that would avert a looming partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies into March. The House approved the measure by a vote of 314-108, with opposition coming mostly from the more conservative...
Pentagon Chief Calls on Congress to Pass Spending Bill on Time More Reuters FILE PHOTO: U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during a news briefing after participating a virtual Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., No...
These three appropriations bills passed in late September. Republicans cut $20 billion from the defense bill, much of it by defunding "this Administration's divisive social agenda," according to the bill summary. The House defense appropriations bill bans funding for gender-affirming medical procedur...
House passes bill that could lead to US ban of TikTok Special counsel Robert Hur testifies on Biden classified documents probe Trump and Biden prepare for rematch as Haley bows out of GOP race Mitch McConnell Fast Facts Congress passes short-term funding bill to avoid partial shutdown ...
Congress has procured a total of 13 ships, including three destroyers, in its final version of the fiscal year 2022 defense authorization bill, five more ships than the Navy requested in its initial budget.
The budget package, supported by Trump and agreed to by leaders from both Republican and Democratic parties, will increase defense and non-defense spending by about 300 billion U.S. dollars for the next two years, and raise the debt ceiling through March 2019. ...