Bad Economy Bonus for E-6 and Below Pushed by House in Annual Defense Bill The proposal for a bonus for service members hurting from the economy is similar to an idea in last year's House NDAA for an...
5.2% Troop Pay Raise in 2024 Gets Support as Debt Ceiling Fight Subsides Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand urged the leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee to ensure that this year's National Defense...
VA Lost More than $3.5 Billion in Misplaced Spending in Fiscal 2022 The amount is down from the previous two years but is still nearly quadruple the amount in fiscal 2019.
VA Issues New Warning that Default Could Have 'Catastrophic' Effects for Veterans VA Secretary Denis McDonough said Wednesday there is "no blueprint for what could happen."
VA Can't Account for $187 Million in Emergency COVID-19 Funding The department received nearly $37 billion in additional funding to address the COVID-19 pandemic but now says it is free to...
Republicans Vow to Boost Veteran Spending Amid Debt Ceiling Fight The GOP bill would give the VA about $153 billion in discretionary funding in 2024, up from $135 billion that the department...
How Veterans Benefits Could Be Delayed in June by a US Default Billions of dollars of veterans benefits could be imperiled if the U.S. defaults on its debts, though the full extent of the...
Cleanup of 'Forever Chemicals' Around Military Bases Is Woefully Underfunded, Group Says An advocacy group says the gap is widening between the cleanup costs and related funding for PFAS chemicals from firefighting...
Veterans Health Care and Benefits Become Flash Points in Debate over Debt Ceiling and Spending Cuts The GOP proposal does not specifically cut VA funding, but it would place a cap on the overall amount of money the government...
Air Force Budgets Less for Bonus Pay for its Toughest Jobs in 2024 Special Duty Assignment Pay is reserved for some of the toughest jobs in the Air Force, ranging from Basic Military Training...
Army Planners Are Weighing Force Reductions of Up to 90,000 Active-Duty Soldiers The Army is quietly considering a sweeping reduction of up to 90,000 active-duty troops, a move that underscores mounting...
Commander of Air Force Weather Wing Fired After Legal Troubles Earlier This Year Col. Joseph Coughlin, commander of the 557th Weather Wing at Offutt, was removed from his position Tuesday "due to a loss of...
Top US General Argues Against Giving Up Command of NATO at Senate Hearing Giving up American military leadership of the NATO alliance would be "problematic," Gen. Christopher Cavoli told senators...
Capitol Hill Wants $15 Billion for Weapons Pentagon Didn’t Seek: Report The spending directions from Congress are included in tables that Republican Defense appropriators sent the department last...
'Psychological Warfare': Veterans Fired from Federal Government Speak Out at Informal Hearing Air Force veteran Shernice Mundell was testifying at a "shadow hearing" organized by Senate Veteran Affairs Committee ranking...