Democrats on Thursday during a congressional hearing with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin defended his failure to inform President Joe Biden that he was in the hospital for three full days amid two wars and troops being under attack in Iraq and Syria.
The Navy was made aware back in March of racy photos posted on the Instagram account of one its digital ambassadors who is a drag queen.
The Pentagon said in a recent letter to lawmakers that it could kick out as many as 16,000 unvaccinated troops, despite its coronavirus vaccine mandate no longer being in effect.
Warning of a “major threat to democracy,” Republican Reps. Mike Waltz (R-FL) and Jim Banks (R-IN) are demanding “transparency” regarding the effects of the Department of Defense’s “wokeness” — which they blame for undermining the military’s apolitical character and harming recruitment, which is at a “historic” low.
Playing “silly games” can lead to “someone like a Liz Cheney taking the gavel,” warned Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, who called on
Following White House Chief Medical Adviser and Director of the NIAID Dr. Anthony Fauci’s recent announcement that he would step down from his government positions in December, Republican lawmakers insisted the nation’s top epidemiologist would still be subject to investigations into his questionable role in the COVID pandemic and the country’s response in combating it.
Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), a member of the House Armed Services Committee and chairman of the influential Republican Study Committee, has written a letter to the head of U.S. Cyber Command, giving notice that it should preserve documents related to the Department of Defense’s decision to award a $750,000 contract to NewsGuard.
Twitter has reportedly locked Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) out of his account after he commented that the “title of first female four-star officer gets taken by a man” in reaction to transgender assistant secretary of health for the HHS Rachel Levine being sworn in as a four-star admiral.
Republicans are warning that average Americans will suffer drastic consequences if Democrats win control of the executive and legislative branches in November and sign into law current proposals to pack the Supreme Court.
Banks warned if the Pentagon does not innovate beginning now, the U.S. military will not be able to win a future war with China.
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) is among the Republican lawmakers calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to open a criminal investigation into Netflix for what Cotton called “peddling child pornography” after the streaming giant released the preteen twerking film “Cuties.”
Banks will introduce a bill on Tuesday to prevent China from making “predatory” investments in American firms during the coronavirus pandemic.
