Joe Gould
Joe Gould was the senior Pentagon reporter for Defense News, covering the intersection of national security policy, politics and the defense industry. He had previously served as Congress reporter.
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Republican budget plan will ‘undermine’ US security, warns Biden admin
The Biden administration is portraying plans from Republicans to gut the federal budget as jeopardizing national security.
Shutdown clouds gathering, but Paul Ryan's upbeat
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Friday that Congress will likely have to pass another stopgap measure to avoid a government shutdown and buy time for more 2018 spending negotiations.
Corker touts ‘progress’ to replace war authorizations
Republicans and Democrats have argued for years that the war authorizations Congress passed after 9/11 have since been overstretched by successive presidents and that Congress must reassert its war-making powers.
State doubles its influence on Senate Armed Services Committee
Republicans have named South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott to the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Mattis asks senators to end budget chaos
US lawmakers welcomed Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’ visit to Capitol Hill Tuesday to talk up defense spending and decry unstable budgeting, but it’s unclear he moved the needle in favor of Pentagon spending.
Defense funding roils 2018 budget fight
To break Democrats’ insistence on parity between defense and non-defense spending increases, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is arguing defense spending has been hit harder.
US Senate confirms Rood as Pentagon policy chief
The Lockheed Martin executive now joins the Mattis team at the Pentagon.
Lawmakers move to limit Trump authority to launch nuke after ‘nuclear button’ size tweet
Two Democratic lawmakers are sponsoring legislation that would require the president to receive congressional approval before initiating a first-use nuclear strike from the United States.
Congress in for messy start to 2018
Although lawmakers managed to avert a government shutdown before skipping town for the holidays, they will face a mess when they return in January.
Congress avoids government shutdown with another short-term budget fix
The four-week budget deal would keep federal operations uninterrupted through Christmas, but again put off debate over a full-year fix.
