Cryptocurrency industry super PAC Fairshake reported holding $141 million in cash as of July 2025, surpassing what it spent during the entire 2024 election cycle, as the crypto industry prepares for an ’even bigger 2026 push’ to elect allies and defeat critics. In 2024, crypto interests …
Congress included $120 million for Abrams tank upgrades in the FY2015 National Defense Authorization Act, marking the third consecutive year lawmakers overrode Army leadership requests to suspend tank production—the first such production halt proposed since World War II. Representative Mike Turner …
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Congress approved $255 million to upgrade M1 Abrams tanks through 2014 despite explicit Army testimony that it had ceased ordering tanks and wanted to save billions by halting production to develop next-generation armor. The appropriation represented a direct override of military leadership by both …
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