Current Events > Fraud and waste MY BUTT: Trump announces $1 TRILLION Pentagon package

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and watch as conservatives all the sudden don't care about rampant spending anymore and make excuses

also Donald Dove

whatever could he need to up the budget of the military this much for?

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/07/hegseth-trump-1-trillion-defense-budget-00007147

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pledged a first ever $1 trillion defense budget proposal on Monday, a record sum for the military.
Trump, during a press event with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said the upcoming budget would be in the vicinity of $1 trillion.
Hegseth went further in an X post on Monday evening, saying Trump is rebuilding our military and FAST.

COMING SOON: the first TRILLION dollar @DeptofDefense budget, Hegseth posted from his personal account. (PS: we intend to spend every taxpayer dollar wisely on lethality and readiness).
The number would be a significant increase from the $892 billion funding Congress allocated for national defense programs this year, which includes the Pentagon, nuclear weapons development and security programs at other agencies. It also comes as the armed services seeks to cut 8 percent of their individual budgets and reinvest the money in modernization efforts.
Hegseth is also planning to slash tens of thousands of department civilian employees across the globe as the Pentagon starts work on what is expected to include consolidation of domestic and overseas bases.
Their comments came as a surprise since the rollout of the federal budget isnt expected until late May.
Trump did not specify if the $1 trillion would be solely for the Pentagon or the overall national defense budget, which includes other agencies. But national defense spending was already projected to exceed $900 billion in the upcoming budget.
Nobodys seen anything like it, Trump told reporters. We have to build our military, and were very cost-conscious, but the military is something that we have to build. And we have to be strong because youve got a lot of bad forces out there now.
Republicans on Capitol Hill, separately, are planning an interim defense budget increase of up to $150 billion as part of their party-line efforts to boost military and border spending and slash taxes. Lawmakers havent settled on a final figure the Senate has pushed for $150 billion while House Republicans have proposed $100 billion although the Defense Department could likely spend that additional money over a decade.

He needs the money for his parade.

In Trump's defense.

Between siding with Russia, promising to intensify killing in Gaza, threatening to invade Greenland and Panama, and just generally making an enemy of every country on the planet.

There is a good chance America will be fighting several wars at once.

Now that I think about it.... that's not an actual defense.

hmnut7 posted...

In Trump's defense.

Between siding with Russia, promising to intensify killing in Gaza, threatening to invade Greenland and Panama, and just generally making an enemy of every country on the planet.

There is a good chance America will be fighting several wars at once.

Now that I think about it.... that's not an actual defense.

Kamala was supposed to be the one to get us in wars

Trump said if he was president Putin would NEVER have invaded

NEVER

WingsOfGood posted...

The number would be a significant increase from the $892 billion funding Congress allocated for national defense programs this year

An 11% increase? Or is it like $1,892 billion now?

We have unlimited money if it's for more military spending but Medicaid? Sorry, can't afford it anymore. Gotta cut it.

we all knew it was a grift, but announcing a bunch of extra money for the one department that has never passed an audit really just...highlights that it's a grift

not thrilled about agent orange trying to start WW3 just to keep out of prison, regardless

Goddamn what a fucking asshole

I despise this man with every fibre of my being.

The cult will use the defense of "We need a strong military to protect our freedoms!" while being the same group of asshole dipshits that are perfectly fine with us now protecting a country that literally was invaded by another because they gave up their nuclear arsenal on the promise of our protection.

Why are they looking to fire 5-8% of the DOD if they are increasing spending? Sending it all to contractors?

WingsOfGood posted...

whatever could he need to up the budget of the military this much for?

Martial law

WingsOfGood posted...

Kamala was supposed to be the one to get us in wars

Trump said if he was president Putin would NEVER have invaded

NEVER

Maybe the plan was for the US to invade Ukraine during trump's second term, if he won in 2020, and then share the land with putin.

ReturnOfDevsman posted...

An 11% increase? Or is it like $1,892 billion now?

11% is fairly significant when you're talking about $100+ billion. An increase to $1.9T however would be both absolutely fucking insane and par for the course for this crazy ass regime.

normal people don't fully grasp how much a billion is

let alone 100 billion

Unknown5uspect posted...

11% is fairly significant when you're talking about $100+ billion. An increase to $1.9T however would be both absolutely fucking insane and par for the course for this crazy ass regime.

Agreed, on both counts. I just really wish I knew which it was.

JTsyo posted...

Why are they looking to fire 5-8% of the DOD if they are increasing spending? Sending it all to contractors?

The contractors are the ones lobbying for this, so yes.

hmnut7 posted...

In Trump's defense.

Between siding with Russia, promising to intensify killing in Gaza, threatening to invade Greenland and Panama, and just generally making an enemy of every country on the planet.

There is a good chance America will be fighting several wars at once.

Now that I think about it.... that's not an actual defense.

Crazy part about it is that our military in general is diminishing as time passes on, many Americans in general do no want to join the army.

Homeless_Waifu posted...

Crazy part about it is that our military in general is diminishing as time passes on, many Americans in general do no want to join the army.

Not much reason to fight for a country that doesn't really care about you to begin with.

So tell me why they need to RIF anyone if the budget is this huge? Oh right, they don't actually give a fuck about cost efficiency and saving money. They just want to fuck over federal workers.

Also, at the moment it looks like attrition and retirements will fulfill their quotas, but who knows about phase 2?

WingsOfGood posted...

normal people don't fully grasp how much a billion is

let alone 100 billion

Yeah, whenever you see it put into like seconds and it goes from 1 million seconds is like 11 days but 1 billion seconds is like 30 years. The uber wealthy are cosmic entities at this point.