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Members of the National Guard patrol on H Street, NE, on Sept. 11, 2025.

Defense

CBO: National Guard deployments cost half-billion dollars

First concrete tally of the president's domestic deployments

By Mark Satter
Posted January 28, 2026 at 4:52pm

Senate Armed Services Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., has not been shy about disagreeing with some of Trump's national security policies.

Congress

Republican defense hawks broke with Trump repeatedly in 2025

By Caroline Coudriet
Posted December 26, 2025 at 7:00am
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., arrives at a closed Senate Armed Services Committee briefing on naval aviation mishaps in the Capitol Visitor Center on Dec. 2.

Congress

Congress inches toward reclaiming war powers with AUMF repeals

By Rebecca Kheel
Posted December 24, 2025 at 7:00am
The fiscal generosity for weapons projects favored by Congress but not the Pentagon is a thoroughly bipartisan phenomenon.

Defense

Hill added $100 billion-plus since 2022 on unrequested weapons

By John M. Donnelly
Posted September 16, 2025 at 3:34pm
President Donald Trump, flanked by members of Alabama's congressional delegation and others, speaks to reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday as he announces the moving of Space Command headquarters from Colorado to Alabama. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Trump moves Space Command HQ to Alabama, citing Colorado’s mail-in voting

By John T. Bennett
Posted September 2, 2025 at 4:39pm, Updated at 6:33pm
Vindman, right, is seen in the Capitol with his twin brother Alexander Vindman on Dec. 18.

In the Spotlight: Eugene Vindman

By Nick Eskow
Posted July 14, 2025 at 2:54pm