John Donnelly

1 week ago | gazettextra.com | John Donnelly

WASHINGTON - The White House made official Friday that President Donald Trump wants the first ever $1 trillion defense budget. Yet Trump will not be able to increase defense spending at all above current levels - in fact it would decrease after accounting for inflation - unless a narrowly divided Congress sends him a reconciliation bill containing a huge increase for defense in fiscal 2026, hardly a given. Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency.

1 week ago | thebrunswicknews.com | John Donnelly

By John M. Donnelly, CQ-Roll Call WASHINGTON - The White House made official Friday that President Donald Trump wants the first ever $1 trillion defense budget. Yet Trump will not be able to increase defense spending at all above current levels - in fact it would decrease after accounting for inflation - unless a narrowly divided Congress sends him a reconciliation bill containing a huge increase for defense in fiscal 2026, hardly a given.

1 week ago | arcamax.com | John Donnelly

WASHINGTON — The White House made official Friday that President Donald Trump wants the first ever $1 trillion defense budget. Yet Trump will not be able to increase defense spending at all above current levels — in fact it would decrease after accounting for inflation — unless a narrowly divided Congress sends him a reconciliation bill containing a huge increase for defense in fiscal 2026, hardly a given.

1 week ago | dailyitem.com | John Donnelly

WASHINGTON — The White House made official Friday that President Donald Trump wants the first ever $1 trillion defense budget. Yet Trump will not be able to increase defense spending at all above current levels — in fact it would decrease after accounting for inflation — unless a narrowly divided Congress sends him a reconciliation bill containing a huge increase for defense in fiscal 2026, hardly a given. kAm(9:E6 w@FD6 @77:4:2=D F?G6:=65 @?

1 month ago | gazettextra.com | John Donnelly

Defense appropriators in Congress have recommended adding nearly $15 billion the Pentagon did not request in fiscal 2025 for several hundred military research and procurement programs, a new database shows. In most cases, those increases were additions to the amount of funds the Pentagon had sought.