The annual defense authorization bill contains a 5.2% pay raise for troops and a host of other policy renewals needed for military operations.
Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of Dec. 4, 2023.
They worry that if A-10s at Guard bases in Maryland and Michigan retire without a replacement, those squadrons could lose their fighter missions.
A niche appropriations debate on multiyear munitions buys has ballooned into one of the numerous partisan standoffs over the defense spending bill.
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