Greek defense minister calls for EU to loosen strict defense spending limits
Greece’s defense minister says the European Union should abandon a “schizophrenic” approach of imposing very strict defense ...
Lithuanian president backs Trump’s NATO defense spending goal amid ongoing Russian threat
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda says that any peace settlement in Ukraine must involve Kyiv and come with more defense ...
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Lithuania's Budrys on Ukraine, NATO, Defense Spending
Kęstutis Budrys, Lithuania Minister of Foreign Affairs, shares some details around the various conversations he's had on ...
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Philippines shores up defenses with increased military spending
Defense leaders in Manila are beefing up the country's defenses as China asserts itself over disputed claims in the South ...
Senate preparing to move first on budget package amid House stalemate
Senate Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) will brief Republican senators Wednesday about moving first on a budget ...
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There's Actually an Incredibly Easy Way for Elon Musk to Trim $2 Trillion of Government Spending: Cut Funding for Nuclear Weapons
Easy As Pie Can we all agree that nuclear warfare is bad? Yes? Well, do we have an easy way that Elon Musk and his so-called ...
House Democrat: ‘I don’t contest’ DOGE will likely find ‘awful examples of wasteful spending’
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said Thursday he thinks President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) commission, ...
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Israel And Algeria Underpin Rise In Middle East Defense Spending
Middle East spending is on the upswing again. Defense expenditures in the region, excluding Iran, increased 21.8% in real terms to $195.4 billion in 2024 from $160.4 billion in 2021, marking its ...
Senate GOP prepares to move on two-step budget package
Senate Republicans expect to mark up their budget resolution as soon as next week, as the House GOP struggles over its ...
Trump claims budget-slashing is popular. These polls disagree.
Trump claims he has a "mandate" to slash budgets, but polls show Americans want more spending on education, health care, ...
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NATO Members to Increase Defense Spending Beyond 2% of GDP
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte announces that alliance countries will soon face higher defense spending obligations to ...
In Lamont’s budget speech, a fervent defense of ‘Connecticut values’ in opposition to Trump
Towards the end of his speech, CT Gov. Ned Lamont introduced its chief DEI officer and the case for keeping diversity, equity and inclusion.