| As Lawmakers Scrutinize Pentagon Equity Deals, Pentagon Keeps Making Them Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. The Trump administration's campaign to compel hundreds of billions of dollars of new military appropriations out of Congress, citing new materiel needs downstream of its unsanctioned Iran War, has been stalled in the Senate for months. But one unexpected winner has emerged from the congressional stalemate over defense spending: an obscure investment office in the Pentagon known as the Economic Defense Unit (EDU). |