Congress Has Plan to Avert Shutdown, But It's About to Make Pentagon Budgeting Even More Complicated Military construction funding would expire earlier than the rest of the Pentagon budget under legislation on track to become...
Pentagon Abortion Policy at Center of Senate Fight Expected to Cost Just $1 Million a Year, Analysis Says The low estimated cost relative to the Pentagon's more than $800 billion budget is unlikely to shift the political debate...
No Protections for Troop Paychecks Yet as Lawmakers Bicker and Shutdown Grows More Likely The uncertainty over troop pay comes as government funding is on track to expire at midnight Saturday.
How a Government Shutdown Impacts Military Family Services Wondering how this whole shutdown business could impact on-base services? Here are the details.
Will Congress Protect Troop Pay if the Government Shuts Down Sunday? For Now, That's Unclear Bills have been introduced in both the House and the Senate that would allow service members, including members of the Coast...
Will a Government Shutdown Affect Your VA Loan? Veterans and other eligible borrowers have had so many questions about how their home loan benefits are affected during a...
Government Shutdown Would Not Affect VA Medical Care and Most Benefits, Secretary Says As a result of advanced funding received from Congress, many VA services would not be affected by a shutdown, but furloughs...
Threat to Troop Paychecks Rises as Congress Fumbles Pentagon Bill and Lurches Toward a Government Shutdown Two times this week, House Republicans tried and failed to advance their fiscal 2024 Pentagon spending bill because of...
Pentagon Says Ukraine Training, Weapons Shipments Will Continue Despite Any Government Shutdown The aid is an "excepted" activity, meaning it is not dependent on lawmakers providing new funding for the Ukraine mission...
How a Government Shutdown Impacts Military Pay, Benefits These are the details from the military on what a government shutdown means for military pay and benefits.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
![Banner reading: In the event of a Government Shutdown, We Are Open](http://images02.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2023-09/ApNewsroom_Spending%20Showdown.JPEG.jpg?itok=3S98eEUw "US Dept. of Veterans Public Affairs Specialist, Ron Bergen posts banners reading: In the event of a Government Shutdown, We Are Open," at the VA Medical Center West Los Angeles Friday, April 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)")
