Department of Defense spent $93B in one month under Hegseth

Open the Books, an organization dedicated to watching government spending, published its report on March 9, 2026.
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Anthropic launches lawsuit against US Defense Department over supply chain risk blacklist warning of lost contracts

AI company Anthropic has sued the United States Department of Defense. The Pentagon moved to place the company on a “supply chain risk” blacklist. Anthropic is trying to block that decision through ...

Dario Amodei 'cannot in good conscience accede to their request' - Anthropic issues boundaries in Department of Defense's use of Claude AI

The Anthropic CEO has issued a statement explaining the new clauses the company would like included within its contracts with ...

Pete Hegseth Is Pushing Defense Employees to Volunteer With DHS

The defense secretary has made clear that Pentagon managers are to encourage workers, including civilians, to volunteer to assist in the administration’s immigration crackdown.

U.S. Department of Defense: civilians who sign up with Homeland Security ‘may be deployed’ to Vermont

The Vermont Senate recently passed two bills, S. 208 and S. 209, with the aim of protecting Vermonters from ICE activities, ...
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US Department of Defense to cut ties with Harvard University, claims campus ‘celebrated Hamas’

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Demonstrators rally on Cambridge Common in a protest organized by the City of Cambridge calling on Harvard leadership to resist ...
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How the War Department became the Department of Defense – and back again

This article appeared in History of War magazine issue 153. In September 2025 President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming the Department of Defense to the 'Department of War', ...