White House Seeks $1.5 Trillion for #Defense in New #Budget Request
The huge proposed increase would be partly offset by steep #cuts to #DomesticPrograms, some of which the #Trump admin describes as wasteful [which means they’re likely crucial social welfare programs].
#kakistocracy #USpol #Project2025 #law
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/us/politics/white-house-defense-budget.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
With the #US at #war with #Iran & embroiled in conflicts around the world, the White House said on Friday that it would ask #Congress to approve about $1.5 trillion for #defense in the 2027 fiscal year. If enacted, that amount would set #military #spending at its highest level in history.
The request, which arrived on Friday as part of Trump’s new #budget, would amount to a whopping 40% bump from what the US spent on the #Pentagon this fiscal year.
The admin said it would couple the proposed increase with a call for $73 billion in #cuts across #domestic agencies, including the elimination of some #climate, #housing & #education programs [like I said, crucial].
By Friday morning, the White House had released only a summary of its #budget request, which covers the period beginning Oct 1, with fuller details expected later.
Together, the ideas sum to a fiscal blueprint that could add trillions of dollars to the brimming federal #debt over the next decade, if lawmakers translate Trump’s full vision into #law without other changes to federal #spending.
#Trump urged #Congress to approve the new #defense money, >$1.1 trillion, as part of its work to fund the government, & to enact the remaining $350 billion using the same #legislative tactic that allowed #Republicans to clinch their tax cuts last year.
#Trump also asked lawmakers to increase federal funding for #border enforcement & mass #deportations.
In the days before releasing the initial details of his plan, Trump & aides framed the proposed increase for #defense in urgent terms, citing a need to restock munitions & supplies as the #war with #Iran continues. At one point, Trump indicated at a lunch that #military #spending needed to be a national priority, even at the expense of federal safety-net programs & other govt #aid….
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So basically full Nazi
“The Nazis believed in war as the primary engine of human progress, and argued that the purpose of a country's economy should be to enable that country to fight and win wars of expansion. As such, almost immediately after coming to power, they embarked on a vast program of military rearmament, which quickly dwarfed civilian investment”
(I see they haven’t taken down #wikipedia yet)
Gee, I wonder how much Kushner and the Trump spawn are pushing to keep the war going.
"A drone maker backed by President Donald Trump’s two oldest sons is trying to sell to Gulf countries while they are under attack by Iran..."
"The sales drive... positions the company to potentially benefit from a war that their father began...'"
“'These countries are under enormous pressure to buy from the sons of the president so he will do what they want,
A drone maker backed by President Donald Trump’s two oldest sons is trying to win contracts with Gulf countries under threat by Iran and protected by the U.S. military led by their father. Powerus is holding demonstrations in “several” Gulf countries of how its defensive drone interceptors could help them ward off the attacks, according to co-founder Brett Velicovich. Powerus recently struck a deal that will bring on the Trump brothers, Eric and Donald Jr., as stakeholders in the military contractor. The president’s oldest sons have expanded their business interests rapidly beyond hotels and golf courses in a little over a year since their father took office again.
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