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Freedom Caucus derails Pentagon spending bill, foreshadowing shutdown
Republican leaders pulled votes on the defense spending bill after failing to secure Freedom Caucus support, teeing up a possible shutdown next month.
Senators seek to bypass defense caps in debt ceiling bill
Defense hawks demand supplementals to increase the debt ceiling agreement's defense spending caps, possibly in the next Ukraine aid bill.
GOP blasts ‘inadequate’ Biden defense budget as it vows spending cuts
Republicans lay the groundwork to boost the president's defense budget request, even as they vow to slash overall spending.
After UFO shoot-downs, senators fret over holes in homeland defenses
Lawmakers are eyeing NORAD's capabilities after a suspected Chinese spy balloon and other objects pierced North America's airspace.
Congressional rights office announces interim head amid privacy reform effort
The Office of Congressional Workplace Rights could soon lose its executive director to a presidential nomination at the Federal Labor Relations Authority.
By Yiming Fu, Medill News Service
State Department watchdog says Pompeo, wife violated ethics rules
The State Department’s internal watchdog has concluded that former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife violated federal ethics rules by asking staffers to run personal errands and perform non-official work.
Lawmakers oppose Trump move to cut union bargaining for DoD feds
They want to reverse a White House decision to let Pentagon leaders strip collective bargaining rights from military civilians.
Air Force adds another contractor for IT as a Service
Six bases across the United States will be getting compute and store services as the service migrates to the cloud.
By Andrew Eversden
Collins resigns from Congress ahead of expected guilty plea
Prosecutors accused Rep. Chris Collins of sharing non-public information from a biopharmaceutical company with his son, allowing Cameron Collins and another man to avoid nearly $800,000 in stock losses.
Senate again votes to end DoD-dependent border emergency, bucking veto threat
The Senate again passed a bid to end the border emergency President Donald Trump declared to divert military construction funding to the border wall ― but not by a veto-proof majority.
By Joe Gould
5 tips for adopting federal cloud technology
Top officials discuss why their cloud migration was successful.
By Andrew Eversden