DC Weighs Layoffs and Other Cuts as House Leaves Capital City in Budget Limbo Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser tried to keep the focus on a groundbreaking ceremony for a new mixed-used development. But she...
Pentagon Turns Focus to Potentially Privatizing Commissaries, Military Exchanges The Pentagon’s newest push to trim its workforce and spending could mean that on-base grocery stores and shops designed to...
Army Planners Are Weighing Force Reductions of Up to 90,000 Active-Duty Soldiers The Army is quietly considering a sweeping reduction of up to 90,000 active-duty troops, a move that underscores mounting...
Lawmakers Press VA for New Cost Estimate on Electronic Heath Records System Senators want to know the estimated price tag as the Department of Veterans Affairs announced new locations for deploying the...
Capitol Hill Wants $15 Billion for Weapons Pentagon Didn’t Seek: Report The spending directions from Congress are included in tables that Republican Defense appropriators sent the department last...
VA's Top Watchdog Agency Blames Poor Accounting Practices for Last Year's Budget Scare The VA had requested an extra $15 billion from Congress to cover health care and benefits last year but later said most of...
Pentagon to Unveil Cuts Alongside Fiscal 2026 Budget Request The letter, addressed to House Armed Services Chair Mike D. Rogers, R- Ala., and dated March 5, states that Congress will be...
House's Continuing Resolution Would Provide $1.5 Billion for Extra, Unrequested Warship The continuing resolution the House passed Tuesday would add more than $1.5 billion to start building a warship that the Navy...
Pentagon Leaders Silent on Impending Civilian Firings, DOGE Funding Cuts as Questions Mount Top leaders at the Pentagon say they have begun making budget cuts in pursuit of President Donald Trump's efforts to...
'These Are Human Beings': VA Fires 1,400 More Employees It Considers Nonessential The dismissals affect union workers who had served less than one or two years, depending on their jobs.
Class-Action Suit over Limits on Combat-Related Disability Pay Goes Before Supreme Court The Supreme Court will hear arguments in Soto v. United States, a case that challenges a six-year limit on back pay for...
Veterans Reunite with 'Precious Cargo' 50 Years After the Fall of Saigon One woman's quest to say ‘thank you’ led to the colonel who ran her refugee camp and the aircraft maintainer who may have...
48 Hours with Marines and Soldiers on the US Southern Border Amid President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, military assets and personnel are increasingly being relied upon for a...
'Everything Is on the Table': Army Eyeing Expansion of Privatized Barracks As part of a pilot program, construction is expected to begin this summer on a new privately managed facility at Fort Irwin...
Army Suspends Fort McCoy's First Female Commander Amid Trump Portrait Display Controversy The incident, which sparked a wave of right-wing criticism, centered on the base's chain of command wall display -- a common...
![Marines at the border wall](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-04/staff-border-wall-marines-wire-1800.jpg?itok=a3dIOHTu "Marines were deployed here to reinforce barriers during President Donald Trump's first term, but they were not armed with the long guns their Guardian Angels carry now, NPR reported. An old policy from the very unit these Marines come from said Guardian Angels must watch over their units' security with an "ambush mentality." (Drew F. Lawrence/Military.com)")
