Food Assistance Cuts Softened, Veterans Education Benefits Protected in Senate Version of Trump Agenda Bill Two aspects of a sweeping bill to enact President Donald Trump's agenda that alarmed veterans and military family advocates...
Iowa Congresswoman Pushes to Expand Benefits for Vietnam Vets Exposed to Agent Orange Federal legislation signed into law in 2022 expanded VA health care and benefits for veterans exposed to toxic substances...
Deep Workforce Cuts at VA, Pentagon Backed by Republican Spending Bills House Republicans are on track to allow job cuts at the Pentagon and Department of Veterans Affairs to proceed in the annual...
Budget for Veterans to See Private Doctors Would See Big Boost in GOP's VA Funding Proposal Overall, the House Appropriations Committee's fiscal 2026 VA spending bill would give the department about $453 billion -- a...
Lawmakers Push for Osprey Safety Report to Be Added to Annual Defense Funding Bill House lawmakers want a safety report about the V-22 Osprey to be included in the annual defense appropriations bill after...
GOP's 'Big Beautiful' Bill with $8.5 Billion for Military Quality-of-Life Boost Passes House The Pentagon funding could provide a much-needed boost to barracks maintenance, military health care and other areas that...
Military Families Could Go Hungry Due to Food Assistance Cuts in GOP's 'Big Beautiful Bill' Republicans maintain the changes are necessary to put SNAP more in line with other benefits programs and ensure states aren't...
Veterans Crisis Line Employees Were Caught in Mass Firings. A New Bill Aims for Staff Protections. The bill comes after the Department of Veterans Affairs acknowledged in a letter to senators last month that 24 support...
JROTC Expansion at US High Schools Eyed as Part of Bill to Boost Recruiting High school students whose campuses do not have a Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program would be able to join units...
House Democrats Force Republicans Into Votes on Hegseth Controversies During Pentagon Budget Debate While debating a $150 billion Pentagon spending bill Tuesday, Democrats offered several amendments to address the drama...
Pentagon Says US Doesn't Want to Pursue War with Iran After Bombing 3 of its Nuclear Sites The mission, called “Operation Midnight Hammer,” involved decoys and deception, and met with no Iranian resistance, Hegseth...
Hegseth Cancels Massive Contract for Military Family Moves, Pledges Fixes The company, HomeSafe Alliance, had been struggling to manage the U.S. military's domestic moves this year.
How the US Bombarded Iranian Nuclear Sites Without Detection “Our B-2s went in and out and back without the world knowing at all,” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told reporters Sunday...
ICE Arrests Russian National at Marine Corps Installation in Hawaii Military police at Marine Corps Base Hawaii stopped Anastasiia Vorobeva on June 12 at an entry control point on the southern...
Afghan Ally Who Aided the US Military Caught in Trump's Immigration Dragnet An Afghan man who fled to the United States after he says his brother was murdered by the Taliban in retaliation for working...
