The 40% increase in American Defense spending is suggested to done with More cuts in healthcare and social support services….
This price tag is NOT gonna be approved as is….
One suspects the request IS in anticipation of a Democratic Congress coming in Nine months from now….
Even Republicans are NOT gonna slash TONS of non-defence spending and benefits and try to get elected come November…
To get the money?
Trump IS asking lawmakers to make MORE massive cuts in Domestic programs for Americans that have already seen their healthcare benefits cut, gas and food prices rise and government service’s dropped….
At some point?
Hegseth’s blank check for his ‘Crusade’ IS gonna HAS to be paid for by taxpayers…
Asking for even MORE money IS gonna cause political problems ….
In fact?
It’s almost like Trump is trying to guarantee Democrats taking the House next year and maybe even the Senate….
Remember ?
The Supreme’s ALREADY have stopped Trump from stealing more money from taxpayer ‘s thru Taeriff’s and Import taxes….
Donald seem’s to think the taxpayers are dropping money into HIS Piggy Bank to spend on everything except them…
The request comes as Congress grapples with the ballooning costs of the war in Iran, a persistent shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security and the midterm elections ahead.
The White House’s 2027 fiscal year budget proposes a 44 percent increase in defense spending and asks Congress to approve another $350 billion for military weapons and an expansion of the “defense industrial base,” according to a summary of the request released Friday morning.
The request invests “in the foundations of American military power — from defense industrial capacity to the readiness and health of the force” and ensures the “United States maintains the world’s most powerful and capable military,” the administration wrote in documents from the White House Office of Management and Budget announcing the proposal.
The summary also urged Congress to approve a 13 percent increase, or $40.8 billion total, focused on the Justice Department’s efforts to “bring violent criminals to justice” related to immigration, gangs and drug cartels.
The influx of funding for the Pentagon would include more money for the “Golden Dome” missile defense system, a 7 percent pay raise for troops, tens of billions for shipbuilding and the development of new artificial intelligence capabilities in the military, according to the full budget released later Friday.
It also includes massive proposed cuts to federal agencies and programs that the administration argued represented wasteful government spending. OMB requested that lawmakers reduce funding for the Environmental Protection Agency by 52 percent or $4.6 billion; the State Department and other international programs by 30 percent or $15.5 billion; the Department of Labor by 26 percent or $3.5 billion and the Department of Agriculture by 19 percent or $4.9 billion…
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The spending cuts are similar to those that Congress rejected last year, said Jessica Riedl, a budget and tax fellow at the Brookings Institution.
They “are essentially filler to make the defense increase look less unaffordable. They’re going nowhere,” she said. “Ultimately, the purpose of this budget is to push Congress to approve the largest defense spending increase since the Korean War.”
Already, the U.S. and Israel’s war in Iran is running up billions of dollars in costs that the administration has signaled it plans to backfill. The Pentagon has mulled asking for up to $200 billion from Congress for the war….
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Democrats in Congress criticized both the defense boost and cuts and pledged to reject the proposal during the appropriations process.
“Donald Trump’s budget is rotten to the core, and Democrats will make sure it never passes,” Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) said in a statement.
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimated that raising defense spending by $1.5 trillion would add $6.9 trillion to the national debt over the next 10 years when accounting for increased interest…
Note….
Trump IS suing the US government for $10 Billion of the government revenue for people seeing his IRS tax forms back when….
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