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Top Senate Armed Services Republican says Trump OMB’s budget ‘shreds to the bone’ military capabilities
The Senate’s top Armed Services Republican eviscerated President Donald Trump’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) shortly after the White House released details of its government funding proposal for fiscal year 2026.
«President Trump successfully campaigned on a Peace Through Strength agenda, but his advisers at the Office of Management and Budget were apparently not listening,» Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said in a statement.
«The Big, Beautiful Reconciliation Bill was always meant to change fundamentally the direction of the Pentagon on programs like Golden Dome, border support, and unmanned capabilities – not to paper over OMB’s intent to shred to the bone our military capabilities and our support to service members.
House Armed Services Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers echoed Wicker’s complaints.
«I am very concerned the requested base budget for defense does not reflect a realistic path to building the military capability we need to achieve President Trump’s Peace Through Strength agenda,» the Alabama Republican said in a statement.
«I look forward to working with the President and the Senate to achieve real growth in the defense budget and put America on track to realize the President’s goal of investing five percent of GDP on defense for NATO countries.»
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Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., tore into OMB for the Trump budget. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images.)
The Trump OMB’s «skinny budget,» released on Friday, proposes cuts to non-defense funding by $163 billion but increases defense funding from $893 billion to $1.01 trillion – a 13% increase. That includes $892.6 billion in discretionary spending, but will be supplemented by $119.3 billion in mandatory spending that is expected to be passed in the upcoming reconciliation bill.
Senior officials told Fox News the Trump administration needed to get creative to get a $1 trillion-plus budget over the finish line: Republican majorities have historically been forced to offer one-to-one increases in non-defense spending to secure increases in defense spending.
However, by keeping discretionary defense spending at $892.6 billion, the same level as fiscal year 2025, the budget that would be presented to Democrats would essentially reflect an unchanged defense discretionary budget with a smaller non-defense discretionary budget of about $557 billion – a 22.6% decrease.
The White House and congressional Republicans would then pursue the reset of the defense spending through the budget reconciliation process that is linked to the tax cut package.
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He claimed the Office of Management and Budget, led by Director Russell Vought, intended to «shred to the bone» U.S. military capabilities. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
But Wicker isn’t satisfied.
«OMB is not requesting a trillion-dollar budget. It is requesting a budget of $892.6 billion, which is a cut in real terms. This budget would decrease President Trump’s military options and his negotiating leverage,» he said.
«I have said for months that reconciliation defense spending does not replace the need for real growth in the military’s base budget.»
OMB Director Russ Vought said in a post on X: «The President wants to increase defense spending to $1 trillion, a 13% increase to keep our country secure. This budget provides that level while ensuring that only Republican-votes are needed by using reconciliation to secure those increases without Democrats insisting on increasing wasteful government.»
To account for spending decreases across government, all departments were asked to provide recommended budget cuts except for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Transportation, which were excluded to protect veterans’ services as well as NASA and space exploration programs.
Hegseth has yet to weigh in on OMB’s defense spending proposal. ( (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images))
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Congress will have to hammer out its own budget plan – which could take months – with the White House’s framework as a suggestion.
Both Wicker and Rogers have long aimed to grow U.S. defense spending to 5% of the GDP, up from around 3.5 percent.
The Mississippi senator suggested he would ignore the OMB guidelines and work to achieve «real growth» within the defense budget.
Fox Business’ Edward Lawrence and Eric Revell contributed to this report.
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FIRST ON FOX: A top political group that’s allied with Senate Republicans is launching a major ad blitz showcasing what it calls the «Working Family Tax Cuts» in the newly passed GOP domestic policy package.
The spots by One Nation, a public policy organization aligned with Majority Leader John Thune, applaud Senate Republicans for «delivering President Trump’s agenda» by passing the sweeping and controversial measure named by Trump as the «one, big, beautiful bill.»
The ads, which One Nation said will run for several weeks on broadcast, cable and digital, are part of an eight-figure issue campaign. The spots were shared first with Fox News Digital on Wednesday.
«America is back, thanks to President Trump and Leader John Thune’s Working Family tax cuts. Not tax on tips or overtime. Real relief for every American up early and home late,» the narrator in the national ad touts.
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Besides the national ad, the spots will run in Alaska, Florida, Ohio, South Carolina, and West Virginia, and will thank GOP Sens. Dan Sullivan, Ashley Moody, Jon Husted, Lindsey Graham, and Shelley Moore Capito for helping to pass the megabill.
And the ads are part of a concerted messaging effort by the White House and Senate and House Republicans to showcase how the tax cuts in the measure will benefit working-class Americans.
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«One Nation will never cease to educate Americans about the Republican Party’s historic effort to pass the Working Family Tax Cuts,» said former GOP Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, who serves as One Nation chairman.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) championed the GOP’s sweeping tax and spending package, which includes the Working Family Tax Cuts. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The Republican package is stuffed full of Trump’s 2024 campaign trail promises and second-term priorities on tax cuts, immigration, defense, energy and the debt limit.
It includes extending the president’s signature 2017 tax cuts — which were set to expire later this year — and eliminating taxes on tips and overtime pay.
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The measure also provides billions for border security and codifies the president’s controversial immigration crackdown.
«Senate Republicans got President Trump’s conservative agenda done, securing the border, finishing the wall, bringing manufacturing jobs back home,» the narrator in the ad highlights.
President Donald Trump signs the «One Big Beautiful Bill Act» during a Fourth of July celebration at the White House, surrounded by lawmakers and military families. The legislation delivers on several core Trump campaign promises, including major tax cuts and immigration reforms. (REUTERS/Ken Cedeno)
The massive legislation is also projected to surge the national debt by $4 trillion over the next decade, but many Republicans dispute the projection by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
And the new law also restructures Medicaid — the almost 60-year-old federal program that provides health coverage to roughly 71 million low-income Americans. The CBO this week estimated that 10 million people could lose their health insurance over the next decade.
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The changes to Medicaid, as well as cuts to food stamps, another one of the nation’s major safety net programs, were drafted in part as an offset to pay for extending Trump’s tax cuts. The measure includes a slew of new rules and regulations, including work requirements for many of those seeking Medicaid coverage.
«It protected Medicaid for Americans, not illegals,» the narrator in the ad emphasizes.
But Democrats, for months, have repeatedly blasted Republicans over the social safety net changes. And they spotlighted a slew of national polls last month and this month that indicate the bill’s popularity in negative territory.
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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) claims that the bill, which Trump signed into law on July 4 after the GOP-controlled House and Senate narrowly passed the measure along near-party-line votes, will gut Medicaid, forcing rural hospitals and nursing homes to close their doors.
«Rural hospitals were already on the brink of collapse thanks to Donald Trump, but now he has put the last nail in the coffin for rural hospitals with his billionaire budget bill,» DNC chair Ken Martin argued in a statement to Fox News earlier this week.
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Martin highlighted that «in states across the country, hospitals are either closing their doors or cutting critical services, and it’s Trump’s own voters who will suffer the most. This is what Donald Trump does — screw over the people who are counting on him.»
Both parties see the «big, beautiful bill» as a key part of their messaging heading into next year’s midterm elections, when the Republicans will be defending their slim majorities in the House and Senate.
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El CEO de OpenAI alertó a los bancos sobre una “crisis de fraude inminente” por las voces clonadas con IA
Sam Altman, director ejecutivo de OpenAI, advirtió sobre el riesgo inminente que la inteligencia artificial representa para la seguridad bancaria mundial durante una conferencia de la Reserva Federal en Washington.
La capacidad de la IA para clonar voces humanas ha vuelto obsoletos los sistemas de autenticación por voz, según remarcó Altman. Advirtió de una “crisis de fraude” que podría golpear pronto a bancos e instituciones financieras, que deben abandonar estos métodos rápidamente. Así lo reportó KSAT, medio que también difundió el llamado del CEO a prepararse para un escenario de amenazas digitales inéditas.
Altman intervino en un momento marcado por la evolución acelerada de la tecnología y una creciente inquietud regulatoria. Mientras la Casa Blanca se apresta a publicar un plan de acción sobre IA y la industria financiera revisa sus protocolos de seguridad, la advertencia de Altman resalta la urgencia de repensar la protección de los activos financieros ante la sofisticación de los ataques potenciados por inteligencia artificial.
Durante el evento de la Reserva Federal, Altman expresó su preocupación ante la persistencia de la autenticación por huella de voz en instituciones financieras. “Algo que me aterra es que, al parecer, todavía hay algunas instituciones financieras que aceptan la huella de voz como autenticación”, afirmó Altman ante ejecutivos y legisladores de Wall Street.
Consideró “una locura” mantener este sistema, subrayando que la inteligencia artificial “ya ha derrotado completamente ese método”.
El mecanismo, que se popularizó hace más de una década entre clientes de alto patrimonio, permite a los usuarios acceder a cuentas telefónicas pronunciando una frase específica. Sin embargo, Altman advirtió que los clones de voz generados por IA pueden suplantar identidades con un realismo casi total, lo que obliga al sector a diseñar nuevas formas de verificación.
Según Axios, Altman remarcó que la crisis de fraude está “muy, muy cerca” y que los delincuentes ya no necesitan tecnología de última generación para atacar. Destacó que la sociedad no está preparada para la rapidez con la que evoluciona la IA, lo que incrementa la vulnerabilidad de los sistemas actuales.
La clonación de voz mediante IA ha progresado tanto que, según Consumer Reports, solo hacen falta tres segundos de audio para crear imitaciones convincentes. Incluso periodistas han utilizado estas herramientas para superar barreras de seguridad de bancos reconocidos, como lo reportó KSAT.
El proceso técnico requiere modelos de IA entrenados con muestras mínimas de audio. Estas herramientas pueden reproducir timbre, entonación y patrones de habla de una persona, generando grabaciones prácticamente idénticas a la voz original. Este avance desafía los sistemas de autenticación tradicionales, que confiaban en la singularidad de la voz para garantizar la seguridad.
La popularidad de la autenticación por voz entre clientes de alto patrimonio se basaba en la creencia de que la voz era un identificador único y difícil de falsificar. La penetración de la inteligencia artificial ha destruido este supuesto, permitiendo ataques de suplantación cada vez más sofisticados y difíciles de detectar.
Ante la amenaza creciente, los reguladores han comenzado a reaccionar. Michelle Bowman, vicepresidenta de Supervisión de la Reserva Federal y máxima autoridad reguladora del banco central, moderó la charla con Altman y manifestó la disposición de la institución a buscar soluciones conjuntas: “Eso podría ser algo en lo que podamos pensar en asociarnos”, declaró Bowman según KSAT.
Esto refleja el incremento de la atención regulatoria sobre los riesgos de seguridad ligados a la inteligencia artificial. Investigaciones citadas por KSAT señalan que el 91% de los bancos estadounidenses están reconsiderando sus métodos de verificación de voz tras el auge de la clonación por IA. La apertura a la cooperación sugiere que la industria financiera y la regulación reconocen la magnitud del reto.
El fraude basado en deepfakes y clonación de voz por IA crece en gravedad y costo. Expertos estiman que las pérdidas asociadas a estos ataques podrían llegar a 40.000 millones de dólares para 2027, frente a los 12.000 millones de dólares de 2023, según datos citados por KSAT. Estas cifras reflejan la velocidad y el alcance de la amenaza, así como la urgencia de actualizar los sistemas de seguridad.
La facilidad para crear imitaciones de voz ha impulsado a la mayoría de bancos estadounidenses a replantear sus mecanismos de autenticación. La revisión de los protocolos y la búsqueda de soluciones innovadoras se han convertido en prioridades; el sector financiero enfrenta una carrera contrarreloj para proteger activos y clientes.
La advertencia pública de Altman tiene lugar en un contexto de intensa competencia y desafíos internos para OpenAI. Según AOL, la empresa ha atravesado meses turbulentos bajo la presión de grandes tecnológicas como Google, Meta, Amazon y Microsoft, además de la competencia de startups emergentes y nuevos modelos lanzados por rivales como xAI.
Con una valoración de cerca de 300.000 millones de dólares tras una histórica ronda de inversión, OpenAI ha visto cómo empresas como Meta tratan de atraer a sus ingenieros con millonarios bonos de entrada. Altman señaló que Meta ofreció “bonos de firma de 100 millones de dólares”, aunque minimizó el impacto de la fuga de empleados, insistiendo en la solidez del equipo de la compañía.
Las fricciones con Microsoft, principal inversor de OpenAI, se han amplificado por diferencias sobre acuerdos comerciales y el concepto de inteligencia artificial general (AGI). La caída de una posible adquisición de la startup Windsurf y retrasos en nuevos lanzamientos han añadido presión.
Altman anunció que el próximo modelo de lenguaje de la empresa se ha pospuesto para realizar pruebas de seguridad adicionales, sin fecha concreta para su debut.
OpenAI, sin embargo, sigue expandiéndose con acuerdos estratégicos. Ha firmado un contrato de 200 millones de dólares para proveer capacidad de IA al ejército de Estados Unidos, además de anunciar colaboraciones con empresas como Mattel para integrar IA en productos de consumo como Barbie. También planea el lanzamiento de un navegador web impulsado por IA que competirá con Google Chrome, incorporando ChatGPT y funciones automatizadas para los usuarios.
La visita de Sam Altman a Washington tenía la meta de promover la inteligencia artificial como un bien “democrático” para la economía estadounidense, según Axios. Sin embargo, su advertencia sobre la inminente crisis de fraude bancario deja claro que resulta fundamental equilibrar innovación y seguridad para proteger a los usuarios.
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Bukele, who has emerged as a top ally of President Donald Trump and a partner in the U.S. leader’s mass deportation operations targeting illegal immigrants, appeared to laugh off the threat.
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‘DISGUSTING’: NYC councilwoman warns Mamdani victory will drive away key voting bloc: ‘Afraid to live here’
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