In an unprecedented stealth rollout, the Trump administration has submitted its fiscal year 2026 defense budget request to Congress without public release or fanfare -- laying out two starkly different investment paths for new weapons depending on the fate of a partisan budget reconciliation package. The proposal, quietly delivered to Capitol Hill just as the House Appropriations defense subcommittee was set to begin marking its version of the FY-26 spending bill on June 10, reveals the high stakes of this...
