The Senate’s top defense appropriator last week criticized Republicans’ “unprecedented obstruction” in moving spending bills forward and said a potential year-long continuing resolution could amount to a $70 billion impact on the Pentagon and Department of Veterans Affairs. Sen. Jon ...
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The House last Friday passed President Biden’s Build Back Better Act (H.R. 5376), a spending bill with close to $2 trillion in new funding to fight climate change, provide new education initiatives, reform immigration and more, including $500 million for the Department of Homeland Security’s ...
Senate Democrats on Monday released their $726 billion fiscal year 2022 defense appropriations bill, which drew a quick rebuke from GOP lawmakers over the five percent increase in military spending relative to the 13 percent boost in non-defense spending across other bills. When factoring in the ...
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Monday introduced a fiscal year 2022 spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security that would provide more than a half-billion dollar increase in proposed spending for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), demonstrating strong ...
The Transportation Security Administration needs about $350 million annually devoted to the acquisition and deployment of advanced checkpoint baggage scanners to be able to accelerate the fielding of the technology, the agency’s top official said on Wednesday. With current budgets, to purchase ...
The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) version of the FY ‘22 defense policy bill would extend authority for the Navy to buy several amphibious vessels at once, but also asks the service to provide reports on the merits for the decision and upgrade potential. Last year, the FY ‘21 defense ...