COUNTDOWN TO SHUTDOWN: With just three days to avoid a government shutdown that would halt military pay and wreak havoc on the economy, the House and Senate are far apart on their preferred solutions.
Republicans in the House are divided with Speaker Kevin McCarthy , who is still pushing for a short-term continuing resolution that would slash most federal spending by 8% and attach a hardline border security amendment demanded by his hard-line right flank.
“All last week, Speaker McCarthy catered to the MAGA hard right and has nothing, nothing to show for it,” Schumer said in a post on X. “And yet, Speaker McCarthy is still wasting time on MAGA hard right bills that won’t get us any closer to avoiding a shutdown.” HAPPENING TODAY: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is in Angola, the last stop on his weeklong trip to Africa, which included visits to Djibouti and Kenya. He’s scheduled to give a speech at 9 a.m. Washington time at Angola’s national archive, which will be livestreamed by the Pentagon on its website.
Trump is skipping the debate, as he did the first one. Instead, he will deliver a prime-time speech in Michigan in an attempt to appeal to striking members of the United Auto Workers.DEAD OR ALIVE?: At press time yesterday, there was confusion about whether Ukrainian claims that Adm. Viktor Sokolov, Russia’s Black Sea Fleet commander, was killed in a Friday strike on the fleet headquarters building in Sevastopol, Crimea.
The report said one of the academics targeted was Ariane Tabatabai, who currently serves in the Pentagon as the chief of staff for the assistant secretary of defense for special operations. Washington Examiner: Schumer announces Senate has struck a bipartisan stopgap government funding deal Air & Space Forces Magazine: ‘Don’t Let the Wing Down’: Strike Eagle Crews Recap ‘William Tell’ Fighter MeetCalendar8 a.m.
2 p.m. — Atlantic Council virtual discussion:"An Allied Approach to Countering Beijing's Military-Civil Fusion," with Nazak Nikakhtar, commissioner for export controls at the Global Tech Security Commission; Dave Stillwell, commissioner for defense at the Global Tech Security Commission; Claire Chu, Janes senior China analyst; Ryan Heath, Axios global technology correspondent; and Anna Puglisi, senior fellow at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology https://www.
9:30 a.m. — Senate Armed Services Committee hearing to consider nominations of Derek Chollet to be undersecretary of defense for policy and Cara Abercrombie to be assistant secretary of defense for acquisition https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings
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