US Senate

McConnell urges Army to select Fort Knox for new HQ — but will Schumer push for New York sites?

Unclear if Schumer plans to advocates for New York sites, like Romulus or West Point WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02) announced today they sent a letter

2020 Presidential Election

What would Trump do in a second term?

BY JAMES PETHOKOUKIS Did Donald Trump take over the Republican Party, or was it the other way around? Yes, Trump’s multi-front trade war was a violent break from GOP economic orthodoxy. But in many other ways on policy, the president

Foreign Policy

Is the Army the richest service? Navy? Or Air Force?

BY MACKENZIE EAGLEN This year’s battle of the budget between the services has been much more public than any in recent memory, as Breaking D readers know. Mackenzie Eaglen, who writes for us regularly on Congress and the budget, does

Foreign Policy

Coercing China on climate change?

BY DEREK SCISSORS The atmosphere does not respond to greenhouse gas emissions per capita or scaled by economic size or to “fairness,” only to the quantity of emissions. The latest data on those quantities reinforce that (prospective) American policy-makers who see climate

US Senate

Gillibrand votes no on USMCA, slams Trump-negotiated trade deal

WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today released the following statement on her vote against the USMCA: “I plan to vote against President Trump’s USMCA agreement. President Trump’s USMCA deal may be slightly better than NAFTA, but let’s be

Foreign Policy

Libya explains why Turkey has no friends

BY KORI N. SCHAKE It is hard to credit now, but there was a time, only a decade ago, when Turkey described its foreign policy doctrine as one of “zero problems with our neighbors.”  But since then, Ankara has burned its boats with