Defense

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...

The White House issued a statement Monday saying that the President's senior advisers would recommend vetoing H.R. 4435, the annual defense...

As the Senate Appropriations Committee makes its 302(b) allocations, divvying up funding among the 12 appropriations bills, it will have to deal with...

Maya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a commentary that appeared in the Wall Street Journal Washington...