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Republicans’ slimmed down reconciliation effort undercuts President Donald Trump’s push for an extra $350 billion for defense.

Lawmakers in both parties are concerned that officers in Maine and Texas lacked body cameras, months after Congress allocated funds for them to be deployed to ICE officers.

Some argue that Ukraine’s agenda in Washington will suffer, others that there are other interlocutors to Trump who can step up.

The initiative comes after the Defense secretary last September rolled out a new set of standards for combat roles across the military.

The Take Care of America's Veterans Act may not get a House vote this week because of ongoing controversy surrounding the measure.

The U.S. has sought to limit Iran’s ability to control the Strait of Hormuz after President Donald Trump announced the temporary ceasefire was “over” a week ago.

There was little hope in the region for a swift resolution to the fighting as the two sides remain unable to resolve control of the Strait of Hormuz.

A $1.15 trillion Pentagon policy bill was handily rejected, a blow to Republicans who had sought to deliver on President Donald Trump’s record-shattering defense budget ambitions.

The National Defense Authorization Act will need 60 votes to clear an initial procedural hurdle Tuesday in the Senate.

President Donald Trump's notification that the U.S. is again at war with Iran gives the administration another 60-day clock for military action.

The former Obama chief of staff and anticipated 2028 presidential candidate explained how he’d free up the strait, as the U.S. and Iran head toward war again.

“He’s screwing us into political oblivion,” said one House member.

The president’s comments that the U.S. ceasefire with Iran had ended only cemented the sense among NATO members that they can no longer rely on America.

The president started his visit to Ankara berating the NATO alliance. Something changed before he left.

Ukraine has urgently sought more interceptors as Kyiv tries to defend its cities against Russian missile barrages.

The former GOP leader has been absent as the bipartisan appropriations process he helps oversee has run aground.

But the president praised Turkey and again floated the idea of selling Ankara advanced fighter jets, even as he aired old complaints about Greenland, Ukraine and European energy policy.

The U.S. president has refashioned the alliance into something far different from its original intention.

Even Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee emerged from the classified briefing urging Pentagon officials to give them more information.

It’s the latest legal victory for The New York Times against the Defense Department’s press crackdown.

The annual defense policy legislation, one of the few measures almost guaranteed to pass each year, is held hostage by a Republican battle over an elections overhaul.

Mark Rutte's visit to Washington foreshadows the upcoming alliance summit, which will likely try to paper over U.S. antagonisms.

The House Appropriations Committee became the third committee to endorse the Pentagon rebrand.

Some of the president’s biggest supporters in Congress expressed concern about the impact of increased military spending on the national debt.

The two leaders have a history of working well together, but Rutte has a narrow lane to work with between Trump’s demands and the alliance’s fiscal realities.