The administration is threatening to veto defense policy legislation that House and Senate lawmakers recently negotiated because it includes nearly $40 billion in additional war funding that the military did not request. The negotiations took place after each chamber passed…
Although lawmakers have included some retirement reforms in this year’s defense authorization bills, they fell back into old habits by rejecting modest changes in TRICARE, the health care program that serves active and retired members of the military. While crafting…
Calling low spending caps and congressional resistance to cost-saving reforms a “double whammy,” Defense Secretary Ashton Carter warned last week that the military cannot carry out its strategic objectives without changes. Carter told the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee that “if…
Some lawmakers are chipping away at their colleagues’ opposition to a badly needed new round of military base realignment and closures. Members of the House Appropriations Committee included language in the Military Construction/Veterans Administration funding bill that asks the Pentagon…
