On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpa Partners, Gordon Adams, PhD, Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute, Mackenzie Eaglen of the American Enterprise Institute and Michael Herson, President and CEO, American Defense International and Heather Conley, senior vice president for Europe, Eurasia and the Arctic at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Topics:

— Update on National Defense Authorization Act and appropriations

— The prospects for the GOP’s proposed coronavirus stimulus package including spending on new programs and unemployment benefits cuts

— Impact of the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw 12,000 US troops from Germany and whether lawmakers can stop it

— Look at the draft Democratic platform 

— How lawmakers are coping with report that Rep. Louis Gohmert, R-Texas, tested positive for the coronavirus