Defense Appropriations

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March 21, 2023

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...

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March 14, 2023

Details of President’s Budget Request Emerge

Released last week, President Joe Biden’s fiscal 2024 budget request contains $842 billion for the Defense Department. The total is $26 billion — or 3...

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February 14, 2023

Conflicting Messages Abound on 2024 Defense Spending

Congress found common ground last year and added $45 billion to President Joe Biden’s fiscal 2023 defense budget request. Some of the additional...

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January 18, 2023

Lawmakers Hint at Defense Spending Cuts

The razor-thin margin Republicans have for controlling the House and concessions Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., offered to secure the speakership are...

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December 20, 2022

Lawmakers Finalize Defense Policy, Spending Bills

Congress added some urgently needed National Guard equipment to the text of the fiscal 2023 omnibus appropriations bill released Monday. The $1.7...

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October 18, 2022

Senate Slowly Begins Work on Annual Defense Bill

More than two months after the House finished working on its version of the fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, the Senate has begun...

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October 04, 2022

Shutdown Averted, but the Fix Is Bad News for Defense

President Joe Biden signed a short-term continuing resolution into law Friday, averting a partial federal government shutdown. The House passed the...

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September 27, 2022

Congress Faces Friday Budget Deadline

With just three days left this fiscal year, lawmakers are working feverishly on a stopgap budget to avoid a government shutdown at midnight Friday...

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August 02, 2022

Guard C-130Js in Initial Senate Appropriations

Sixteen C-130J-30 Super Hercules cargo planes for the Air National Guard are in Sen. Patrick Leahy's mark of the fiscal 2023 defense appropriations...

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July 19, 2022

NDAA Sails Through House, Awaits Senate Action

The House last week approved the $851 billion fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act by an overwhelming 329-101 margin. The voluminous policy...

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June 22, 2022

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...

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May 31, 2022

NGB Chief: 'Budgetary Uncertainty’ Hurts Guard Readiness

The National Guard Bureau chief warned lawmakers last week their habit of missing budget deadlines hurts Guard readiness. In 12 of the last 13 fiscal...

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