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email At House Hearing, Defense Appropriators Discuss Everything But the Budget
The Biden administration has yet to submit a 2022 budget request, limiting Congress’ ability to oversee defense spending. May 7, 2021
When U.S. Air Force and Space Force leaders testified before a House appropriations subcommittee on Friday on their 2022 budget requests, only a single question about actual program costs was asked.
The lawmakers didn’t probe more because there’s still no official budget request from the Biden administration to question. Instead, the defense appropriations subcommittee focused on policy which is more often the purview of their House Armed Services Committee colleagues.
Can Biden solve the Space Force’s public relations crisis? Valerie Insinna
Photo credit: Alex Brandon/AP WASHINGTON When leaders gathered at the White House to commemorate the first birthday of the Space Force, it was supposed to be a celebration. Instead, the new military branch stumbled into another public relations quagmire after Vice President Mike Pence announced that members of the service would be called “guardians.” The announcement immediately reverberated through social media, with celebrities and mainstream news outlets mocking what seemed to be yet another instance of the Trump administration pilfering pop culture for a military organization that at least to some has always seemed more like a joke than a serious policy endeavor.