Joe Gould

The House Armed Services Committee has endorsed a Republican plan to add nearly $25 billion more than President Joe Biden requested for defense.

A bipartisan group of 13 lawmakers wrote to the Pentagon in support Lockheed Martin’s proposed $4.4 billon acquisition of rocket maker Aerojet Rocketdyne.

Sparring over the size of the defense budget and partisan recriminations over the U.S. exit from Afghanistan are expected to dominate the House Armed Services Committee’s marathon markup of its annual policy bill on Wednesday.

Eight months into President Joe Biden’s first year as commander-in-chief, he’s making good on a campaign pledge to form an administration that would “look like America,” selecting for the Defense Department top officials meant to reflect the country’s diversity.

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday rejected a Republican proposal to add $50 billion in defense infrastructure spending to Democrats’ budget resolution.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved a measure to repeal the 1991 and 2002 Iraq War authorizations, a further step toward curbing presidential war-making powers.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said Tuesday that the Biden administration supports repeal of the war authorization Congress provided in 2002 to invade Iraq, teeing up action in the Senate on Wednesday.

“The people who want to spend more than the Biden number have built a lot of support, and yes, I think that is a potential bipartisan pathway,” says House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith. “I don’t support it, I don’t think that’s where we should go, but at the end of the day, I…