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Republicans will again try to slash defense secretary’s salary to $1
Democratic lawmakers have blasted the salary reductions as unrealistic and petty.
Senate defense panel faces uphill battle in ditching debt ceiling caps
A bipartisan push to grow the FY25 defense budget beyond the debt ceiling caps faces strong headwinds in the Senate and House.
Opinion
Congress should approve Pentagon’s latest multiyear procurement pitch
Why aren’t block buy and multiyear purchases used much more often by the Defense Department?
By Mackenzie Eaglen
Senators wary of VA plans to trim employee numbers
VA leaders have said they plan to trim about 10,000 department posts in fiscal year 2025 in an effort to better manage their workforce.
Medicare, Social Security go-broke dates pushed back by strong economy
Medicare’s go-broke date for its hospital insurance trust fund was pushed back five years to 2036, Social Security’s trust funds run into trouble in 2035.
By Fatima Hussein and Tom Murphy
Defense Secretary makes final pitch on FY25 military budget this week
Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of May 6, 2024.
House lawmakers denounce Pentagon’s planned drop in submarine orders
A bipartisan group of 120 lawmakers asks defense appropriators to ignore the Navy budget proposal and procure two Virginia-class attack submarines.
Department of Education ripped over ‘lax’ telework policies
Another federal agency has come under fire by lawmakers for permitting its employees to telework.
US drug control agency to reclassify marijuana in historic shift
The move would acknowledge it has less potential for abuse than some of the most dangerous drugs but would not legalize marijuana outright.
Opinion
NOAA’s budget is too small. That’s costing the US billions of dollars
With a fiscal year 2024 budget of $6.3 billion, the nation’s leading weather and climate agency remains significantly underfunded.
By Scott Rayder