Making Sure Vets Get PACT Act Benefits Is New House Veterans Affairs Chairman's Top Priority Rep. Mike Bost said he sees no signs that the VA is being overwhelmed, noting that the law also gave the department the...
Tensions Rise over House Investigation of Afghanistan Withdrawal as Panel Threatens Subpoena for Documents House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Mike McCaul said he would issue a subpoena to force the State Department to hand...
What Is an Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF)? The Authorization for Use of Military Force is a joint resolution by Congress that gives the U.S. president the authority to...
Defense Budget Cuts Floated by GOP Could Hurt Troops, Pentagon Official Warns The budget fight is heating up after the Biden administration earlier this month released its $1.7 trillion budget plan for...
Next Step for Incentive Pay Boost for Guardsmen and Reservists Coming in 'Weeks,' Defense Official Vows At issue are 18 categories of incentive pay used to attract recruits or retain service members with specific skills or...
Nominee for Veterans Benefits Chief Hits Senate Speed Bump Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said he was placing a hold on Joshua Jacobs' nomination to be the VA's under secretary for...
Religious Groups Push to Cut Biggest Ever Pentagon Budget The call from 62 religious groups echoes years-long, unsuccessful efforts from progressive lawmakers to cut as much as $100...
'We Were Ignored': Veterans and Troops Detail Horrors of Afghanistan Evacuation as House Investigation Begins Service members and veterans who helped evacuate Afghans testified during the first hearing of the House Foreign Affairs...
Battle Lines Drawn in Congressional Debate over Cutting -- or Increasing -- $842 Billion Pentagon Budget Failure to come to an agreement on funding the Pentagon and the rest of the federal government could mean a government...
Top Enlisted Marine Predicts More Money for Barracks in New Budget The Marine Corps' top enlisted Marine is anticipating more money for facilities ahead of the rollout of the service's budget...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
