Tag: Congress
Stevenson’s army, June 7
– Politico sees split between GOP Senators and Representatives over defense spending and Ukraine.
– NYT sees split between Russia and Saudi Arabia over oil.
– WaPo sees generational GOP split over debt ceiling.
– In another Discord leak found by WaPo, it seems US knew of Ukrainian plans to damage Nordstream pipeline.
– Evan Thomas has a new book about the end of WWII. FP runs an excerpt on the A-bomb decision.
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Stevenson’s army, June 5
– NYT weighs the evidence on Biden’s aging.
– CNN tick tock on the debt ceiling says veterans programs helped Biden prevail.
– Tim Wu has good ideas on how the government should deal with AI.
– The Hill says Sen. Klobuchar has a way around the Tuberville hold on nominations.
– Semafor’s Ben Smith says Ukraine works hard to control the war news.
– FP writer tells of watching Russian TV all day.
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Stevenson’s army, June 3
– NYT has a good assessment of the debt ceiling deal. In my view, the good news is that a centrist agreement was reached and passed; the bad news is that future agreements will be harder because the Administration seems to accept the GOP red lines of no new revenues and ever-growing defense, and the GOP accept the Democratic opposition to touching mandatory social programs.
– Jake Sullivan says the US still wants arms control. His speech, and a story about it.
– FP writer complains [and he’s right] that the Biden administration isn’t really doing trade deals yet falsely redefines agreements as FTAs.
– WSJ notes that oral exams are back. [We were there long ago.]
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Stevenson’s army, May 30
– WSJ says Chinese Defense Minister has again rebuffed SecDef Austin.
– Politico notes some of the little pieces of the Financial Responsibility Act.
– FP writer mentions wars that don’t get covered.
– Matt Yglesias says there’s misinformation on the left as well as the right.
– Dan Drezner tells how Henry Kissinger got rich.
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Stevenson’s army, May 28
– WSJ piece suggests Merkel was too accommodating to Putin.
– Henry Kissinger: Fred Kaplan skewers; Jonathan Guyer emphasizes the positives.
– Reactions to the debt-limit agreement: Politico explains; Matt Yglesias has a critique sympathetic to Democrats.
– Meanwhile, there’s more for Congress to do.
– Also, administration announces an IPEF deal.
On this Memorial Day weekend, I want to report on a lovely World War I memorial and gardens I saw recently in Inverness, Scotland. Two Tommies were outlined with black piping. A sign repeated a eulogy originally written in 1918 but more famously associated with British forces fighting the Japanese in India and Burma at Kohima:
When you go home
Tell them of us and say
For your tomorrow
We gave our today
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Stevenson’s army, May 26
– A debt ceiling deal seems to be coming together. Remember that nothing is agreed until the package is agreed. And whatever is agreed has to be turned into legislative language and subjected to legislative procedures. Until then…
– Defense One predicts tough questions for Gen. Brown in his CJCS hearing.
– NBC says Sen. Tuberville will still block it.
– NYT says Russia is using Soviet-era bombs that are harder for Ukraine to block.
– Atlantic notes 1879 budget standoff.
My SAIS colleague Charlie Stevenson distributes this almost daily news digest of foreign/defense/national security policy to “Stevenson’s army” via Googlegroups. I republish here, with occasional videos of my choice. To get Stevenson’s army by email, send a blank email (no subject or text in the body) to stevensons-army+subscribe@googlegroups.com. You’ll get an email confirming your join request. Click “Join This Group” and follow the instructions to join. Once you have joined, you can adjust your email delivery preferences (if you want every email or a digest of the emails).
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