Valerie Insinna
@ValerieInsinna
Covering Congress and the defense industry for @breakingdefense . Military plane meme aficionado. Mother of @ImpalerCat. She/her
This is the greatest thing I've ever thought-engineered.
So @ValerieInsinna had a very..unique..video request last month in Asia after watching F-35B video. Please enjoy
After 4 months of a near-total Israeli siege, Gaza’s hospitals now have wards for the malnourished children whose tiny bodies are just the width of their bones. Aid groups had warned of this for more than a year. Now a worst case scenario is upon us. washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/…
SCOOP: The Pentagon’s inspector general has received evidence that messages from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Signal account previewing a U.S. bombing campaign in Yemen derived from a classified email labeled “SECRET/NOFORN,” people familiar with the matter said.
Someone please fact check me--is Rep. Tokuda the first member of Congress that owns a labubu?
Important news from the House Armed Services Committee: Rep. Tokuda has a Labubu!
Important news from the House Armed Services Committee: Rep. Tokuda has a Labubu!
Ozzy Osbourne watching the guy at Chipotle wrap his burrito.
Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Concert tickets $3,600 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
SCOOP: The Navy is considering eliminating up to five high-level admiral positions key to the construction of ships and fighter planes, even as President Donald Trump has vowed to pull the Navy out of its shipbuilding crisis
And I will always push it. Never give up!
I'm lowkey obsessed with Rep. Garamendi's annual attempts to kill the Sentinel program. It just feels comforting, dependable. These amendments are always here for me, like a hug.
The final vote out of the House Armed Services Committee for the FY26 NDAA had only two "No" votes. Reps. Ro Khanna and Sara Jacobs. The chamber started cheering "Ro, RO, RO!" until they were surprised by Jacobs joinging him. Khanna is usually the lone no vote.
11:37pm finish for HASC #NDAA markup tonight still makes it the second-fastest of the last 14 years. For info before that, you have to delve deep into the @connorobrienNH congressional archives (subscription only, $19.99 a month). docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
Ok I'm going to bed but before I go, one of the final HASC NDAA amendment packages snuck in a little provision forbidding the retirement of any A-10s in FY26.
Whoa. House Armed Services *approved* Marilyn Strickland's amendment to block DOD from contravening the recommendations of the base renaming commission, 29-28. Don Bacon and Derek Schmidt crossed the aisle to help approve it.
weird one...
An amendment from Morgan Lutrell and Sara Jacobs to bar the transfer of cluster munitions is rejected, 15-42. Seven Rs and eight Dems voted for it.
no one asked but i attempted to ease the pain by making an impulse clothing purchase
Into the 13th hour of NDAA deliberations. How are we doing?
Into the 13th hour of NDAA deliberations. How are we doing?
Clay Higgins, the only Republican to speak up in support of Mace's amendment to cut Ukraine aid, calls out Adam Smith for saying Republicans voted to increase the debt through reconciliation. "He knows that's not true." Smith starts laughing uncontrollably when he hears that.