Will Reason Prevail?: House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.) is on board, if not leading, the bandwagon to look for cuts in the federal budget to pay for this year’s hurricane disaster relief, which, he says, “has dwarfed all previous national disaster assistance packages.” Speculation abounds around the beltway on which programs will get cut—and big-ticket defense programs like the F/A-22 Raptor are high on many lists. In a counterpoint to those who claim we must cut, cut, cut, Tom Nugent, writing for the National Review Online, says, “We’ve been here before, … [and] the concerns of the budget-deficit hawks didn’t pan out.” He does not believe the “Hooveresque prescription of spending cuts, postponed tax cuts, and higher taxes” proposed by budget conservatives is at all necessary to pay for Katrina.
Trump Says US Will Sell F-35s to Saudi Arabia
Nov. 17, 2025
President Donald Trump said he plans to sell F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, announcing his decision Nov. 17, a day before he meets the country’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House.
