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The week America's war ran out of budget

The news, distilled

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Adrian Monck
Jul 19, 2026
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Senate Democrats blocked the defence authorisation bill. The reconciliation mechanism shrank by 83 per cent overnight. A Pentagon inspector-general put the ammunition deficit in writing, and in Fujairah, DP World began engineering a bypass that treats the Strait’s closu…

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