Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story What's in Biden's $895B defense budget? The Biden administration’s defense budget for fiscal 2025 is only a 1 percent increase from last year’s, a slowdown in spending that will prevent the Pentagon from quickly refilling weapons...
The Biden administration is expected to soon issue a strategy for placing charging infrastructure for electric freight trucks in strategic and busy corridors, two sources told The Hill. One source said that the strategy could be announced on Tuesday. Proponents of this approach argue that it could allow for more infrastructure to be available where...
A West Texas judge shut down Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R) attempts to subpoena a nonprofit that assists migrants on Monday, after calling the state’s demands “rude” and “unprofessional” in arguments last week. Last month, Paxton accused El Paso-based Annunciation House of “alien harboring, human smuggling, and operating a stash house.” The nonprofit acts...
A prominent Boeing whistleblower who reported on safety and quality control concerns in the company’s production line was found dead Saturday, according to South Carolina authorities. John Barnett, 62, died of an apparent self-inflicted wound on Friday, the Charleston County Coroner’s office said. He was found in his truck at his hotel’s parking lot. A...
House Republicans on Monday issued a new report on the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, seeking to discredit Congress’s initial investigation into the 2021 rampage and exonerate former President Trump of any wrongdoing as he races to return to the White House next year. Behind Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), chair of the House Administration Committee’s Oversight...
President Biden’s campaign released a new digital ad Monday targeting former President Trump over his recent comments on entitlement “cuts.” The ad featured an interview with Trump on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Monday where he argued “there is a lot you can do” when it comes to cutting funding to entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare when host...
Presented by Panasonic — Congress, not the president, holds the power of the purse, so Biden’s exact proposal is unlikely to actually be implemented as written. {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Biden proposes funding hike for energy, environment The Biden administration is proposing more spending at the Environmental Protection...
The world has turned a blind eye on Sudan, but it cannot continue to do so. As the Sudanese people call out for the international community to listen, the U.S. must answer their call with action. Sanctions alone will not end the war.
The stock of Meta Platforms dropped Monday after former President Trump labeled Facebook as “an enemy of the people” earlier that day. Shares for Meta, the parent company of Facebook, dropped by about 4.5 percent to just under $484 after Trump’s Monday interview on CNBC’s "Squawk Box." Forbes reported that this was the lowest closing for Meta...