Lawmakers have by this coming Friday night to sign a continuing resolution keeping the government running through September, and they’re purportedly eyeing a deal reached Sunday that will allow that to happen on time. The $1 trillion deal, according to Reuters, gives the Defense Department an extra $12.5 billion and another $2.5 billion if President Donald Trump delineates for Congress how he plans to defeat ISIS. It also funds the National Institutes for Health with an extra $2 billion. The deal specifically pivots funds to “an array of federal programs from airport and border security operations to soldiers’ pay, medical research, foreign aid, space exploration, and education,” according to the article. The deal will have to be approved by the House of Representatives and later by the Senate. The alleged deal comes two day after lawmakers pushed a measure to fund the government through this Friday. If congress doesn’t sign a continuing resolution by the new deadlines, hundreds of thousands of federal workers will get laid off.
New GBSD Will Fly in 2023; No Margin Left for Minuteman
June 14, 2021
The first Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent missile will fly by the end of 2023, and not a moment too soon, as the Minuteman III ICBM is becoming increasingly costly and challenging to keep credible, strategic system managers and commanders said during an AFA virtual forum. They also discussed initial operating and…