Tag: Roger Wicker

War With China Over Taiwan Would Have ‘Devastating’ Impact, Defense Secretary Austin Says

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin warned China that a war over its democratic neighbor Taiwan would have a “devastating” impact on the world. “The whole world has a stake in maintaining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait—the whole world. The security of commercial shipping lanes and global supply chains depends on it. And…


LIVE NOW: US Support for Ukraine’s Defense With Sens. Risch and Wicker: An Event by Hudson Institute

Sens. Jim Risch (R-Ind.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), the leading Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Senate Armed Services Committee, speak about U.S. support for Ukraine’s defense in the Russian-Ukraine war at 4:00 p.m. ET March 29, in a Hudson Institute conversation hosted by Hudson Senior Fellow and Director of the Keystone Defense…


US Support for Ukraine’s Defense With Sens. Risch and Wicker: An Event by Hudson Institute

Sens. Jim Risch (R-Ind.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), the leading Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Senate Armed Services Committee, speak about U.S. support for Ukraine’s defense in the Russian-Ukraine war at 4:00 p.m. ET March 29, in a Hudson Institute conversation hosted by Hudson Senior Fellow and Director of the Keystone Defense…


GOP Senators Accuse Pentagon Official of Leaking Classified Information on Chinese Spy Balloon

Pentagon official Colin Kahl leaked classified information about Chinese spy balloons to deflect blame on the Biden administration’s mishandling of a similar spy balloon in U.S. airspace last month, according to two Republican senators. Kahl, whom President Joe Biden appointed as his undersecretary of defense for policy, provided classified information to reporters, revealing that Chinese…


GOP Senators Accuse Pentagon Official of Leaking Classified Information on Chinese Spy Balloons

Pentagon official Colin Kahl leaked classified information about Chinese spy balloons to deflect blame on the Biden administration’s mishandling of a similar spy balloon in U.S. airspace last month, according to two Republican senators. Kahl, whom President Joe Biden appointed as his undersecretary of defense for policy, provided classified information to reporters, revealing that Chinese…


Top Republican Senators Press Pentagon for Unanswered Questions About Chinese Spy Balloon

Leading Senate Republicans are criticizing the Pentagon for avoiding their questions about the Chinese spy balloon that flew over the United States for days before being shot down. In a letter Wednesday to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the top Republicans on the Armed Services and Intelligence committees,…


Elon Musk Calls Out ‘Corporate Journalism’ Over Coverage of His ‘Twitter Files’

Elon Musk has criticized mainstream media outlets over their coverage of the so-called “Twitter Files.” “Why is corporate journalism rushing to defend the state instead of the people?” Musk wrote on Twitter on Dec. 27, in response to a tweet from journalist and documentary filmmaker Leighton Woodhouse. The latter was sharing his new Substack post…


Republican US Senator Urges Imposition of No-Fly-Zone Over Ukraine

U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) has joined some colleagues who want President Joe Biden and other world leaders to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine, despite warnings that such a move would mean the United States would be engaging directly with Russia. “Clearly, in the absence of a U.N. resolution, which Russia would veto, a…


US Senator Urges Imposition of No-Fly Zone Over Ukraine

U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) has joined some colleagues who want President Joe Biden and other world leaders to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine, despite warnings that such a move would mean the United States would be engaging directly with Russia. “Clearly, in the absence of a U.N. resolution, which Russia would veto, a…


Three US Senators Get COVID-19 Despite Being Fully Vaccinated

Three U.S. senators on Thursday said they tested positive for COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated against the virus that causes it. Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), 70, Angus King (I-Maine), 77, and John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), 69, are the latest prominent U.S. officials to contract so-called breakthrough infections of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. Wicker’s spokesman, Phillip…