VA Needs Extra $6.6 Billion, Not $12 Billion, in 2025, Officials Tell Congress A carryover of $2.5 billion and revised estimates based on actual 2024 expenditures have allowed the VA to adjust its...
Musk, Ramaswamy Proposal to Slash Spending Could Include VA Medical Services Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy confirmed that they plan to target "unauthorized" federal spending, a category that includes...
VA Backtracks on Budget Shortfall Warning, Angering Lawmakers Who Vow an Investigation In a memo to lawmakers, VA officials said costs have been lower than expected, but that some of the things the department has...
Air Force Overcharged 7,943% for C-17 Hand Soap Dispensers, Watchdog Finds In all, the service accepted a 7,943% markup, or more than 80 times the commercially available cost, on the soap dispensers...
Russia Proposes Record Defense Spending as it Pursues Victory in the Ukraine War The Russian government wants to earmark 32.5% of its spending next year for defense, a record amount and up from a reported...
ROTC Scholarships Could Be Slashed This Decade as Army Deals with Glut of Officers The Army is eyeing a roughly $100 million cut to Reserve Officers' Training Corps scholarships through the rest of the decade...
Extra $12B for VA Medical Budget in Limbo After Exclusion from Short-Term Spending Bill Lawmakers did not include the requested VA funding in the continuing resolution -- and are so far not committing to including...
'Significant Consequences': Army Secretary Warns Congress over Short-Term Funding Wormuth emphasized that a planned three-month continuing resolution set to fund the Army starting Oct. 1 will have...
Veterans Benefits Safe After Senate Approves $3 Billion in Additional Funding Before Deadline The Senate approved the legislation to cover the shortfall in Department of Veterans Affairs funding for disability and...
Amid Struggle to Build Subs, Navy Gives Company Running Ads and Website a $1 Billion Contract The contract, which has options that allow it to pay out as much as $980 million, went to a company called BlueForge Alliance...
As REAL ID Enforcement Approaches, TSA Says Military IDs Still Valid for Domestic Airline Travel Beginning May 7, the Transportation Security Administration will require that travelers who use a state form of...
Navy Loses Fighter Jet in Red Sea After It Slides Off Carrier Deck This incident marks the second Super Hornet that the Truman has lost while deployed to the Red Sea, and it is the third major...
Service Members Detained After DEA Raid at Alleged Illegal Underground Nightclub in Colorado The raid resulted in more than 100 migrants being taken into custody, and "several active-duty service members from local...
Supreme Court Justices Question Potential Financial Impact of Ruling on Combat Disability Pay Case The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on a class-action suit that challenges a rule that requires veterans to file...
Want Efficiency? Fund the VA and Cut the Proven Waste in Privatized Veterans Care Faithfully following orders from President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) office, VA Secretary...