Trump to prod Japan PM to increase defense spending on Friday
President Donald Trump is almost certain to pressure Japan to increase its defense spending during a meeting with Prime ...
Freeland announces she'd meet NATO spending benchmark by 2027
Chrystia Freeland says as prime minister, she would have the country can reach its NATO defence spending goal by 2027 — five ...
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Lithuania's Budrys on Ukraine, NATO, Defense Spending
Kęstutis Budrys, Lithuania Minister of Foreign Affairs, shares some details around the various conversations he's had on Capitol Hill and suggests the United States will do what it can to end the ...
Canada’s military just wants to be loved
The Canadians acknowledged more needs to be done to meet NATO defense targets. But Blair and Champagne said that tariffs ...
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There's Actually an Incredibly Easy Way for Elon Musk to Trim $2 Trillion of Government Spending: Cut Funding for Nuclear Weapons
Easy As Pie Can we all agree that nuclear warfare is bad? Yes? Well, do we have an easy way that Elon Musk and his so-called ...
Senate preparing to move first on budget package amid House stalemate
Senate Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) will brief Republican senators Wednesday about moving first on a budget resolution to lay the groundwork for a package focused on border security, ...
The Senate Takes the Budget Reins
Republicans in the Senate seem to have had it with the pace of progress from the House of Representatives in enacting key ...
House Democrat: ‘I don’t contest’ DOGE will likely find ‘awful examples of wasteful spending’
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said Thursday he thinks President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) commission, ...
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Liberal leadership candidates make rival defence spending pledges
Both Chrystia Freeland and Karina Gould vowed Thursday to bring Canada’s military spending up to the equivalent of two per cent of national GDP by 2027 — five years ahead of Trudeau’s timeline and ...
Senate GOP prepares to move on two-step budget package
Senate Republicans expect to mark up their budget resolution as soon as next week, as the House GOP struggles over its ...
Chrystia Freeland to set aggressive timeline for 2% defence spending by 2027
Successive Canadian governments have for years failed to make NATO’s defence spending targets, drawing the ire of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Lawmakers seek to exempt military spouses from return-to-office order
The bill would spare military spouses who work for the federal government from going back to in-person work as ordered by ...