Defense

Recent events in Iraq and Syria have raised the prospect of expanding military operations in the region beyond airstrikes. Gordon Adams in a Fiscal...

Note: CBO has issued a more detailed score of the bill. The table has been updated to reflect these numbers. The Congressional Budget Office yesterday...

The Obama Administration yesterday released the details of its request for war spending (Overseas Contingency Operations, or OCO), with a grand total...

Both the House and Senate have passed bills reforming the VA, and a conference committee must now meet to hammer out differences between the two bills...

The Congressional Budget Office today released a preliminary analysis of several sections of the House VA reform bill. Like the Senate bill that we...

Now that both chambers of Congress have passed bills aimed at improving the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health system, they will need...

The Senate voted 93-3 yesterday on new legislation to expand veterans' benefits by allowing beneficiaries to seek out private (non-VA) health care...

For several years, the Department of Defense (DoD) has been suggesting ways to trim parts of the Defense budget to make room for other military...

In response to the recent VA scandal and hospital backlogs, Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has proposed legislation...

President Obama yesterday announced $1 billion for a European Reassurance Initiative to step up U.S. presence and planning in Central and Eastern...

President Obama announced yesterday the number of troops that would be remaining in Afghanistan beyond the end of the year. While these levels are not...

Strict limits on discretionary spending have made it difficult for policymakers to fund everything they want. Yet instead of making hard choices and...