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Legislation Would Require GAO Report on TRICARE Lapses

Bipartisan legislation in the House would direct the Government Accountability Office to investigate lapses in TRICARE coverage often experienced by National Guard soldiers and airmen when they deploy overseas. Introduced on June 1, the Protecting... Read More Details

Milley Makes Case for Rules-Based Order, Deterrence

The international rules-based order and the strategy of deterrence are not esoteric principles, but ideas that undergird world peace and are worth defending, Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at the National Press... Read More Details

Congress Defies Predictions, Passes Stopgap Budget

Republicans and Democrats set aside sharp policy differences Saturday and passed a short-term funding bill to avoid a government shutdown just hours before the start of fiscal 2024. The action surprised many who thought that the partisan divide in... Read More Details

Lawmakers Punt Again, Agree to Another Stopgap Budget

Congress approved another short-term spending bill last week, the fourth this fiscal year, averting a partial shutdown of the federal government but failing to provide any certainty about fiscal 2024 defense appropriations. The bill President Joe... Read More Details

Lots of Work, Short Deadlines Await Returning Lawmakers

The Senate returns to work today from its summer recess; the House gets back next Tuesday. Both chambers face approaching deadlines. With progress slow on completing a fiscal 2023 budget, the most pressing matter will be developing a stopgap budget... Read More Details

Debt Deal Would Cap Defense Spending

The debt-ceiling agreement House Republican leaders and the White House negotiated last week would cap the defense budget's topline at President Joe Biden’s requested $886 billion for fiscal 2024, a 3.2% increase over this year that includes $842... Read More Details

Senators Back $45 Billion Increase to Defense Spending

Congress appears poised to add tens of billions of dollars to President Joe Biden’s already record defense budget request. Forty-year-high inflation coupled with increasing threats worldwide are the reasons. The Senate Armed Services Committee last... Read More Details

NGAUS Warns Congress Against Defense Cuts

NGAUS is warning congressional leaders against cutting defense spending. Retired Brig. Gen. J. Roy Robinson, the association president, signed a March 7 letter with that message alongside leaders from the Association of the United States Army, the... Read More Details

Guard to Celebrate SPP’s 30th Anniversary

Officials from around the globe will join National Guard leaders next week to celebrate 30 years of building and nurturing international trust through the State Partnership Program. Since 1993, the SPP has paired the Guard’s 54 organizations with... Read More Details

Guard to Anchor Largest Air Exercise in NATO History

The National Guard will make history in June by providing much of the airpower during NATO’s largest air exercise ever. Unfolding June 12-23 in Europe, Air Defender 2023 will include approximately 10,000 airmen and 220 aircraft from 24 nations. The... Read More Details