NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Senate Republicans are having a hard time stomaching an eye-popping funding request that, in part, would fund security enhancements for President Donald Trump’s ballroom. Republicans in the upper chamber still aren’t completely on board with a $1 billion request from the Trump administration and Secret Service tucked … Read more
How Pete Hegseth is justifying the $1.5 trillion military funding request – CBS News Watch CBS News Lawmakers on Capitol Hill grilled Pentagon officials on Tuesday over the military’s $1.5 trillion funding request for the 2027 fiscal year. CBS News congressional reporter Taurean Small has more. Source link
WASHINGTON — Republican senators left a meeting with the director of the U.S. Secret Service on Tuesday saying they need more details on a $1 billion security plan for the White House, including a proposed $220 million to secure President Donald Trump’s new East Wing ballroom. Secret Service Director Sean Callan discussed the proposal at … Read more
Lawmakers grill Hegseth over huge Pentagon budget request – CBS News Watch CBS News Pentagon officials are on Capitol Hill to make the case for a $1.5 trillion 2027 budget amid the Iran war. CBS News’ Nikole Killion reports. Source link
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine are appearing Tuesday before the House and Senate subcommittees that oversee Pentagon budget requests as the Trump administration is seeking $1.5 trillion amid the Iran war. Hegseth and Caine will appear in back-to-back hearings before the House and Senate Appropriations subcommittees that oversee defense … Read more
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday removed an obstacle to Alabama using a new congressional map in this year’s election that would eliminate one of the state’s two majority-Black districts. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The court, over the objection of its liberal members, … Read more
President Trump last week announced an operation to guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz amid the Iranian blockade, and then two days later, he announced it would be paused. Energy Secretary Chris Wright told “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that the U.S. military is currently clearing the Strait of Hormuz now after pausing … Read more
Washington — Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona said Sunday that the Trump administration’s $1.5 trillion budget request for defense spending is “outrageous.” “They need to submit a defense budget that makes sense for the moment we’re in,” Kelly said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.” Last month, the administration released its fiscal year … Read more
Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly told “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that the Trump administration’s request for a $1.5 trillion Defense Department budget is “outrageous,” adding that it’s “nearly the amount that the rest of the world pays for its defense.” Source link
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday that the leaders of Russia and Ukraine have agreed to his request for a three-day ceasefire and an exchange of prisoners, adding that such a halt to hostilities could be the “beginning of the end” of the long war between them. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Yuri Ushakov, … Read more