MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow is facing backlash after suggesting billionaire Elon Musk’s government contracts be terminated due to “national security” risks allegedly posed by the Trump-supporting entrepreneur. The presenter faces accusations she is seeking to have the government “punish” the Tesla CEO for endorsing the former president.
The United States is reportedly planning on stationing nuclear weapons in the United Kingdom amid escalating tensions with Russia.
Wisconsin Republican Mike Gallagher blasted an “insane” gender-neutral policy adopted recently by the Defense Department, describing it as a choice to “waste time and resources on wokeness instead of warfighting,” while calling upon the Pentagon to be “laser-focused on lethality, not pronouns.”
President Joe Biden has agreed to stop funding the construction of United States-Mexico border wall using funds from the Defense and Treasury Departments.
On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” House Minority Whip Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) responded to arguments that the Pentagon’s abortion policy that Republicans are seeking to change in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) amounts to taxpayer funding of
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh stated that Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) holding nominations of military officers over Pentagon abortion policy is “incredibly damaging” but they won’t push Senate Majority
The Chinese state-run newspaper Global Times railed against the global blockbuster hit Top Gun: Maverick on Monday — over a year after its release — as warmongering “propaganda,” proving that the Pentagon “censors the creation of films.”
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Thursday introduced a bill called the Deterring Chinese Preemptive Strikes Act that would “direct the U.S. Department of Defense to harden U.S. facilities in the Indo-Pacific to help further deter a preemptive strike against U.S. forces and assets in the region by China ahead of an invasion of Taiwan.”
Warning of a “major threat to democracy,” Republican Reps. Mike Waltz (R-FL) and Jim Banks (R-IN) are demanding “transparency” regarding the effects of the Department of Defense’s “wokeness” — which they blame for undermining the military’s apolitical character and harming recruitment, which is at a “historic” low.
Terry Adirim appears to have tried to sidestep the law again this time by liking a partisan tweet in potential violation of the Hatch Act.
The Boeing Company is set to outsource to India hundreds of coveted white-collar American jobs, beginning this year, while making billions from taxpayer-funded contracts with the Defense Department.
A handful of Republicans and Democrats are seeking to give green cards to thousands of Afghans brought to the United States by President Joe Biden’s administration amid allegations of widespread vetting failures.
President Joe Biden is seeking to provide green cards to tens of thousands of Afghans who were quickly resettled in American communities over the last eight months amid a federal investigation that found many have possible ties to terrorism and were not properly vetted.
President Joe Biden’s unlimited resettlement of Afghans has brought “dozens of suspected bomb-makers and terrorists” to the United States, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) says.
An explosive report conducted by the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Inspector General reveals that President Joe Biden’s administration brought dozens of Afghans to the United States without properly vetting them and many of whom deemed “significant security concerns” have since gone missing.
Austin has put 8,500 American troops on “heightened alert” in case they need to deploy as part of a NATO readiness force.
An email written by a U.S. diplomat and published online by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) appeared to show there was no security vetting of those allowed to board United States military aircraft and evacuate Kabul as part of the Biden administration’s hastily called non-combatant evacuation operation.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) on Wednesday pledged in a letter to Republican colleagues that he would not support any of them for higher office if they vote for the final defense bill or any other bill that results in a military draft for women or red flag laws risking a service member’s 2nd Amendment rights.
Nearly 41,000 Afghans are currently temporarily living at eight United States military bases as part of President Joe Biden’s massive resettlement operation.
Both Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, notably including chairman Bob Menendez (D-NJ), expressed mounting frustration Tuesday with the Biden administration after Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin refused to answer questions about the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.
President Joe Biden’s Department of Defense does not know how many Afghans flagged on terrorist watch lists have sought refuge in the United States via evacuations out of Afghanistan.
The U.S. military is continuing to draw down its forces from Afghanistan ahead of the August 31 deadline, according to defense officials.
Former Trump officials watching the disaster unfolding in Afghanistan say that the incoming Biden administration rejected their plans.
Austin appeared stumped after being asked if the U.S. is relying on “diplomacy with the Taliban” to allow people safe passage to the Kabul airport.
The Defense Department has confirmed that Afghans evacuated from Afghanistan, and applying for visas to the United States, will be sent to U.S. military bases in Texas, Wisconsin, and Virginia.
The Pentagon directed that “all individuals” — regardless of vaccination status — wear a mask indoors at DOD installations and facilities.
The Pentagon last month quietly updated its policy on masks to allow unmasked troops to be asked for proof of their vaccination status.
Milley dodged reporters’ questions on whether he actually feared then-President Donald Trump wanted to stage a coup.
The “National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism” is being utilized as a “political weapon” to silence and “bludgeon” political opponents, according to Nicholas Giordano, a professor of political science.
National Guard colonel and Green Beret Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) warned the Biden administration that they will have “blood on their hands” if they do not evacuate Afghan interpreters who helped American troops from Afghanistan as the war winds down.
The Pentagon does not yet have a definition of what “extremism” is but is working “quite hard” to define it, according to officials.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) expressed concern Thursday that a Biden administration executive order that changed Trump-era rules on U.S. investment in Chinese companies would give too much authority to a Treasury Department “too closely aligned with Wall Street.”
The Pentagon did not deny a recent report that U.S. special operations forces are in Taiwan helping train their counterparts.
The Pentagon on Tuesday defended the department’s diversity and inclusion efforts rolled out during the Biden administration, characterizing it as a matter of defending the nation.
The first active duty service member has been charged in connection to the January 6 Capitol breach on Thursday, out of the more than one thousand people estimated to have entered the Capitol building that day.
Wormuth said she is concerned about the implications of the Army’s test for combat fitness for retaining women.
Over 120 retired flag officers warned the country is in deep peril and under tremendous assault from those pushing socialism and Marxism.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is “certainly concerned” about the lack of diversity among the senior ranks of the military, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said Wednesday.
Sen. Dan Sullivan blasted a Democrat colleague for suggesting as much as ten percent of the military could be white supremacists or adhere to “extremist ideology.”
The Pentagon is looking into better screening recruits’ and service members’ social media as part of its effort to get rid of “extremism” in the United States military, according to a recent memo from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
