Mark Satter
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HASC Rs are ripping the cancelation of troop deployment to Poland at Army budget hearing. "These are major decisions that appear...to be last-minute decisions," Austin Scott says. "I can just tell you we're not happy with what's being talked about," HASC Chair Mike Rogers says.
Breaking news: President Trump said his administration had selected Washington’s West Potomac Park as the site of his planned “National Garden of American Heroes,” raising questions about whether Congress would need to approve the project. wapo.st/4nvdP93
A memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth abruptly cancelled the deployment of 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team to Poland; the deployment later this year of a long range fires battalion to Germany; and directed the removal of multi-domain command personnel in Europe. Prepared DOD talking points on the change viewed by CNN said the Europeans “have not stepped up when America needed them,” and that “recent Germany rhetoric has been inappropriate and unhelpful.” cnn.com/2026/05/14/pol…
China essentially says the U.S. risks war over Taiwan if issue not “handled well”: “Handled well, relations between the two countries can maintain overall stability,” said Xi, according to a Foreign Ministry readout. “If handled poorly, the two countries will collide or even clash, putting the entire U.S.-China relationship in an extremely dangerous situation.”
Gen. Guetlein responds to CBO number at Tectonic event: "They did not estimate the architecture that we’re building." And those cost estimates use legacy systems. "You can't just take what we've done in the past and multiply it forward or you're gonna get large numbers like CBO."
Excited to unveil the design for the East Potomac Golf Links renovation from Fazio Design. Like iconic public courses of Bethpage Black & Torrey Pines, East Potomac will offer locals—of the National Capital Region—championship-quality golf at affordable, highly discounted rates.
NEW: Senate rejects the latest effort to cut off the Iran war, 49-50. It’s the closest war powers has come to advancing in seven votes since the conflict began. Three Rs voted yes: Collins, Murkowski, Paul. Murkowski had previously opposed. Fetterman was the only Dem no.
