Frederico Bartels

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Frederico Bartels is a policy analyst for defense budgeting at The Heritage Foundation’s Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy.

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    Why Sen. Pat Toomey Did Right Thing in Stopping Burn Pit Bill

    Frederico Bartels
    Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., was right last week to stop legislation that would have presumed a host of health conditions are linked to American service members' exposure to burn pits. First, Toomey was right because the automatic presumption that many illnesses suffered by veterans are connected to burn pit exposure (ranging from chronic sinusitis to…
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    House’s Bipartisan National Defense Authorization Act Rightly Rebukes Biden’s Pentagon Budget

    Conner Bolanos
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    House’s Annual National Defense Authorization Act Scrum Reflects Best and Worst of Congress

    Thomas Spoehr
    • Opinion

    Democrats Cynically Cite Veterans Benefit Increase to Urge More Spending Elsewhere

    David Ditch
    • Opinion

    11 Ways Republican Study Committee Budget Is Blueprint to Save America

    Richard Stern
    • Opinion

    In a Period of Brute Force, China Increases Its Military Budget Yet Again

    Frederico Bartels
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    A Challenging 2022 Looms for Pentagon

    Frederico Bartels
    • Opinion

    6 More Items on Our Christmas National Defense Wish List

    Thomas Spoehr
    • Opinion

    Senate Turns Long-Overdue Attention to National Defense Authorization Act

    Frederico Bartels
    • Opinion

    Why Is Defense Authorization Bill Languishing in Senate?

    Frederico Bartels
    • Opinion

    ‘Wounding Warriors’ Authors Highlight Flawed VA Model That Is Letting Veterans Down

    Frederico Bartels
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    Senate Armed Services Committee Acts to Shore Up US Defenses

    Frederico Bartels
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    Some No-Cost Ways for Congress to Make Pentagon More Effective

    Kaitlyn Romaine
    • Opinion

    2022 Budget: Early Signs Defense Is Not a Biden Administration Priority

    Frederico Bartels
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    Republican Study Committee Budget Would Reclaim America’s Fiscal Future

    Matthew Dickerson
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    Bernie Sanders’ Attack on US Defense Spending Gets the Facts Wrong

    Frederico Bartels