President Trump on Wednesday proposed setting U.S. military spending at $1.5 trillion in 2027, citing “troubled and dangerous times.” The 2026 military budget is set at $901 billion. Mr. Trump’s proposal would represent a 66% jump in funding. Mr. Trump called for the massive surge in spending days after he ordered a U.S. military operation
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A mother in Somalia waits to have her child vaccinated against hepatitis B in a file image. Carl De Souza/AFP via Getty Images The United States suspended all assistance programs for the Somali federal government Wednesday after reports surfaced alleging Somali officials had destroyed a U.S.-funded World Food Programme warehouse and seized 76 metric tons
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) speaks to press after a meeting with other Congressional leaders and cabinet members about Venezuela at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington on Jan. 5, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The House of Representatives will vote on the adoption of a three-year extension of Affordable Care Act enhanced subsidies after
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he froze $10 billion in federal funding to five Democrat-led states because they wouldn’t show the Trump administration plans for eliminating fraud. “The best way to help poor families is to end the fraud,” he told CBS News in an interview Wednesay, saying that the
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. weighed in Wednesday on the decision to rename the Kennedy Center to the Trump-Kennedy Center, distancing himself from the move after several members of his own family publicly criticized it. In an interview with CBS News chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes, Kennedy acknowledged he understood relatives
A sign is posted at a Raytheon Co. campus in El Segundo, Calif., on June 10, 2019. Mario Tama/Getty Images President Donald Trump criticized military contractor Raytheon on Jan. 7 and warned that its future business with the U.S. government may be in jeopardy if the firm doesn’t change its practices. “I have been informed