The House on Thursday passed a massive piece of legislation, dubbed the “Big Beautiful Bill” by President Trump, that includes extra military spending to bring the 2026 military budget over $1 trillion. The bill passed in a vote of 218-214, with only two Republicans...
The Senate on Tuesday advanced a massive spending package, dubbed the "Big Beautiful Bill" by President Trump, that includes $150 billion in extra military spending. The bill passed in a vote of 51-50, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote, as...
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Monday that the Pentagon will soon have its first $1 trillion budget despite the Trump administration's pledges to cut government spending. Hegseth made the announcement on X while sharing a video of President Trump saying that...
Updated on February 20, 2025, at 7:29 pm EST Acting Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert G. Salesses said in a statement on Wednesday night that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered a review of Pentagon spending to realign spending to fund priorities of the...
Update on February 20 at 12:44 pm EST: According to a statement from Acting Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert G. Salesses, Hegseth's order will not actually cut spending but offset spending from certain programs to fund priorities of the Trump administration....
The visit from UN Special Coordinator Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert to Israel has resulted in Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar declaring that Israel is “committed” to the ceasefire with Lebanon. The ceasefire calls for an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon within 60...
It is now just one week from the end of the 60-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. Under the terms of that deal, Israel must fully withdraw its troops from southern Lebanon by January 26. Israel has completely withdrawn from just two towns in the first 53 days...
US Special Envoy Amos Hochstein offered a “guarantee” over the weekend that Israel would fully withdraw from Lebanon by the 60-day ceasefire deadline. The official US maintains this is still the plan, and with just 10 days left in that ceasefire, Maj. Gen. Jasper...
At a time when Turkey is warning the US to end its support for Syrian Kurds, the US and its coalition partners appear to be heading in the opposite direction. The US is reportedly building a new military base in the Kurdish-majority city of Kobani, right on the...
Fighting has been raging off and on for weeks, but seems to be picking up intensity this weekend along the Syria-Turkey border, with Turkey and its affiliates fighting against the Kurdish SDF in and around Manbij. At least 31 combatants between the two sides have been...
