Aa debate over the military’s budget is emerging between defense hawks on Capitol Hill and fiscal hawks in the Trump administration. The fiscal hawks, chief among them Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney, want the next annual defense budget set at $603 billion, a 3 percent increase from the last Obama budget request.
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Thornberry, Blackburn, Black to visit Fort Campbell
Fort Campbell says it’s expecting three members of Congress to visit the post this week to learn about military readiness and budget effects. A news release from the post on the Kentucky-Tennessee border said Republican U.S. Reps.
Based on photo with Putin, Trump calls Schumer ‘hypocrite’
President Donald Trump, his administration under siege for contacts with Russian officials, is calling for “an immediate investigation” into Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s own ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump’s evidence? A 14-year-old photo of Schumer and Putin holding coffee and doughnuts in a New York City gas station.
Military leaders say budget caps are crippling armed forces
President Donald Trump has lunch with troops while visiting U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. Trump, who spent the weekend at Mar-a-Lago, stopped for a visit to the headquarters before returning to Washington.
Elections Have Tax Consequencesby Kevin D. WilliamsonIf you have…
If you can’t – well, the view from Santa Monica is very different from the view from is very different from the view from Elmira in upstate New York. Progressivism in the United States used to be a school of political action, but today it is mainly a highly refined lifestyle – one that Republicans may be on the verge of making a little more expensive.
Lockheed Martin CEO meets with Trump, announces 1,800 more jobs coming to Fort Worth
Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson leaves after a meeting with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida on December 21, 2016. Marillyn Hewson met with President-elect Donald Trump in New York on Friday, and emerged from the meeting promising to reduce the costs of the company’s signature fighter plane and to add 1,800 jobs at its Fort Worth facility.
Continue reading Top Trump aide shoots down report of plans to revamp intelligence agencies
A top spokesman for President-elect Donald Trump shot down a report Thursday that Trump is looking to revamp U.S. intelligence agencies. The report, published by The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday evening, said that Trump is working with staff to restructure and downsize the Central Intelligence Agency, citing sources familiar with the president-elect’s plans.
Editorial: Kill the death tax
The 115th U.S. Congress has hit the ground running , but there is a piece of legislation that should be a slam dunk. U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry, a Clarendon Republican and the Texas Panhandle’s longtime lawmaker, made his first bill of the session the Death Tax Repeal Act.