Adam Smith

President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, to declare a national emergency in order to build a wall along the southern border.

Furious Democratic Armed Services chairman accuses Trump of ‘stealing money from the military’

Jamie McIntyre · February 15, 2019 6:44 pm

Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis testified during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Monday, during which he discussed the aging authorization for the use of military force, or AUMF, passed after the 9/11 attacks. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Pentagon official defends Mattis opposition to withdrawing troops in Syria

Diana Stancy Correll · February 6, 2019 8:42 pm

President Donald Trump, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shake hand at the beginning of a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, Monday, July 16, 2018.

Democratic lawmakers accuse Trump of ‘playing into President Putin’s hand’

Diana Stancy Correll · February 1, 2019 6:48 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2104 file photo, Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. House Republicans urging a steep increase in the Pentagonâs budget have received $10 million in campaign contributions over the course of their congressional careers from defense contractors that would benefit from higher levels of military spending.

National Security

Adam Smith rebukes Pentagon over transparency on new troops headed to the border

Diana Stancy Correll · January 31, 2019 10:05 pm

Rep. Adam Smith and Sen. Elizabeth Warren are shown.

Lawmakers want to ban US from using nuclear weapons first

Diana Stancy Correll · January 30, 2019 10:58 pm

Mac Thornberry and Adam Smith

Ex-House Armed Services chairman clashes with successor over troop deployments to border

Anna Giaritelli · January 29, 2019 8:15 pm

Armed Services Committee ranking member Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., speaks.

Adam Smith: Canceling Pelosi’s trip to Brussels, Afghanistan was ‘undemocratic’

Diana Stancy Correll · January 18, 2019 10:05 pm

U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., speaks during a news conference, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, in Providence, R.I.

National Security

Jack Reed: New missile defense system is ‘higher national security priority’ than border wall

Diana Stancy Correll · January 17, 2019 8:15 pm

Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, said Tuesday that the United States would be better off without a government shutdown this fall, as President Trump called for in a Tuesday morning tweet. (David Banks/Bloomberg)

Top Republican on House Armed Services Committee opposes military money for border wall

Diana Stancy Correll · January 8, 2019 9:28 pm

President Donald Trump speaks about Cuba policy, Friday, June 16, 2017, in Miami.

National Security

Trump has ‘no doubt’ he can fund the wall on his own, but calls for deal with Congress

Katelyn Caralle · January 7, 2019 2:01 pm

Democrats denounce Trump’s suggestion to direct military funding toward border wall

Diana Stancy Correll · January 5, 2019 12:05 am

A U.S. soldier, left, sits on an armored vehicle behind a sand barrier at a newly installed position near the tense front line between the U.S-backed Syrian Manbij Military Council and the Turkish-backed fighters, in Manbij, north Syria, Wednesday, April 4, 2018. A week ago, there was just a single house where U.S. soldiers had hoisted a U.S. flag on a hill a little ways back from a tense front line in Syria. Now on Wednesday stood a growing outpost with a perimeter of large sand barriers and barbed wire, a new watch tower and half a dozen armored vehicles, The Associated Press found.

Beltway Confidential

Pentagon waste shouldn’t stop Congress from fully equipping the military

Frederico Bartels · December 19, 2018 5:00 am