Pentagon officials are reportedly struggling to devise a plan to spend the extra $500 billion that Donald Trump wants to give the bloated, fraud-ridden agency in the next fiscal year, vindicating criticism of the funding proposal as immensely wasteful.
The Washington Post reported over the weekend that “White House aides and defense officials have run into logistical challenges surrounding where to put the money, because the amount is so large.”
The extra $500 billion, endorsed by the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, would push annual US military spending to a staggering $1.5 trillion after the Trump administration and congressional Republicans enacted unprecedented cuts to federal nutrition assistance and Medicaid last summer.
The really crazy part is when you look at it as a percentage of the budget and compare it to pre war levels. It isn’t what you think. In 2000 the budget was $304 billion, a total of 16.7% of the federal budget. Then 2 wars later of ballooning costs and it grew all the way up to $962 billion (the 2025 approved budget. Not counting the random $500 billion he is trying to add in). But this is now only 13.7% of thr total budget. Somehow the percentage has gone down.
Now, if you know numbers you should know that percentages get messy and are misleading to look at. The real question is what the fuck is going on with the giant ballooning budget that has gotten spending so out of control that this monstrous defense spending is now somehow a lower percentage than pre-war spending??? And the real kicker is that we are ballooning on spending, but none of it is going to actually helping the people paying the taxes! None of it is helping built up infrastructure, invest in education, build communities -nothing that helps build this country.
Trump is blowing through money and we doing even get anything out of it.
Shit, I thought the US military budget was at $960 billion, not $1.5 trillion.
How about universal healthcare and a high speed rail network?
- Add lobster as topping choice for daily departmental pizza parties.
I can think of a few military contractors that would live a cool 500b
Just give it to Lockheed and Raytheon as a tip
They should spend it all on passing a financial audit, for once.
If returned to tax payers, this would mean a $3,030 payment for every single one of us.
That’d at least pay the rent one month in Trump’s economy.
Maybe a carton of eggs, even?
Give all of it to the army corps of engineers and build public transportation networks.
Rapid urban troop movers. Must be grade separated.
what the fuck? a good idea??? get out
How much does a Battlestar Galactica cost, we’re gonna need one
It’s one Battlestar Galactica, Michael. What could it cost?
10 cubits?
Here’s an idea, give it back
…And yet no one in power right now will push back against it because they don’t want to be seen as “weak on defense”
Nuclear weapons. Trump already said.
The rate things are going maybe they should plumb it into Baby Oil to lube themselves up for the pedo party protection racket. They all seem quiet apt at following their chiefs orders.
Why not spend it developing proper tracking infrastructure so that they stop failing financial audits.
