Defense budget articles
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Defense Sec. & Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Testify on 2025 Budget Request
"The most important thing that we can do right now is to pass the supplemental and that will provide us the opportunity to continue to provide security assistance to Israel," said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin when asked what is needed to help Israel defend itself. The secretary, along with Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Charles "CQ" Brown, and Defense Comptroller Mike McCord, appeared before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense to testify on the president's 2025 budget request....
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Youngkin unveils budget amendments, strips tax increases from budget
Governor Glenn Youngkin has announced his amendments to the state’s budget passed by the Democratic-controlled General Assembly last month.
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Former congressional budget leaders slam ‘absolutely broke’ budget process
Several former leaders of the House and Senate Budget committees criticized the current state of the congressional budget process on Wednesday in the wake of Congress's repeated failure to adopt concurrent budget resolutions in recent years. “The budget process is absolutely broke, and it needs to be repaired,” said former Sen. Don Nickles (R-Okla.), who