Defense budget

President Joe Biden in this year's budget has requested an additional $5 billion to expand medical research efforts.

Many in Congress have expressed concern over the declining numbers of ships that the U.S. Navy is able to deploy at any given time.

Congressman Mike Rogers wrote an op-ed Tuesday in Defense News in which he criticized President Joe Biden’s budget priorities.

The Biden administration has downsized the defense budget in their first budget request.

Rogers said House Democrats’ budget cuts $16 billion from Biden’s budget but does not detail where that cut would come from.

Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) conference report on a bipartisan 377 to 48 vote. Alabama Congress members Bradley Byrne, Terri Sewell, Mike Rogers, and Mo Brooks all supported the final version of the NDAA and released statements on passage of the legislation. “This bipartisan bill is a huge … Continued