Wynne Mulled For DepSecDef; Trumpers Reject Ayotte

Wynne Mulled For DepSecDef; Trumpers Reject Ayotte
Wynne Mulled For DepSecDef; Trumpers Reject Ayotte

WASHINGTON: A top candidate for the Pentagon’s No. 2 position is Mike Wynne, the former Air Force Secretary who has been an advisor to Donald Trump for some time. We only have one source on this and can’t identify the source in any way, so put this one in the good rumor basket. Wynne was…

Trump’s Pentagon, Trump’s World; Defense Stocks Soar

Trump’s Pentagon, Trump’s World; Defense Stocks Soar
Trump’s Pentagon, Trump’s World; Defense Stocks Soar

WASHINGTON: Hope for the best; prepare for the worst. It’s a standard military prescription for dealing with a sometimes hostile and usually unpredictable world. It’s also what an African-American chum told me this morning was his plan for life under President Trump. This guy is a fellow Chicagoan and Cubs fan, so he knows how to…

McCain Warns Air Force On RD-180; Decries ‘Putin Cronies’ In Deal

McCain Warns Air Force On RD-180; Decries ‘Putin Cronies’ In Deal
McCain Warns Air Force On RD-180; Decries ‘Putin Cronies’ In Deal

CAPITOL HILL: Sen. John McCain came out swinging about the Russian RD-180 rocket engine during a Senate Armed Service strategic forces hearing. McCain began yesterday by asking Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James if she knew that a company called Amross was making millions of dollars of profits from the sale of the Russian rocket engines to the…

Sen. Cotton, 37, Wins Airland Chair; Sens. McCain, Reed Set New SASC Lineup

Sen. Cotton, 37, Wins Airland Chair; Sens. McCain, Reed Set New SASC Lineup
Sen. Cotton, 37, Wins Airland Chair; Sens. McCain, Reed Set New SASC Lineup

WASHINGTON: The youngest senator on Capitol Hill, and one of the very few lawmakers who can wear a Bronze Star and a Ranger tab, has stepped right from his one-term House seat to chairmanship of one of the most important subcommittees on Capitol Hill. That would be Tom Cotton of Arkansas, the new chair of…

Sen. Sessions: GOP Might Ease Initial Sequestration Cuts

CAPITOL HILL: On issues from nuclear weapons to the spending cuts known as sequestration, political common ground has turned into a war-torn no-man’s-land where both sides fear to tread. That intractable divide between the parties was on full display this morning at One Constitution Avenue, across the street from the US Capitol, where Alabama Senator…