March 21 (UPI) --Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced the termination of more than $500 million in military programs, contracts and grants "that do not match the priorities of this president ...

About 13% of the federal budget goes to defense spending. The Defense Department’s budget this year is about $850 billion. Major entitlements, such as Social Security and Medicare, make up half ...

Service members and their families could be harmed by budget cuts if the Defense Department is forced to revert to 2022 funding levels, a department official wrote in a letter to Congress released ...

The Government Accountability Office estimated in June that the full cost of developing and deploying the Sentinel ICBM, ...

(The Center Square) – Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth pinpointed climate change programs as a potential place for the Department of Government Efficiency to cut Department of Defense spending ...

Layoffs, budget cuts could soon hit Defense Department. Posted: February 19, 2025 | Last updated: February 19, 2025. The Department of Government Efficiency is targeting the Defense Department, ...

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from carrying out steep cuts to federal research funding provided to universities by the U.S. Department of ...

There’s simply no good reason for it. There are, however, plenty of reasons why the U.S. defense budget could use a trimming. The most pressing concerns the country’s finances.

The proposed cuts to the Pentagon’s approximately $850 billion budget would amount to tens of billions of dollars in cuts in the first year, the largest reduction in the Defense Department ...

The two universities, along with 10 others, are suing the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over an attempt to slash indirect cost rates to 15% for research funded ...