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U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday submitted a budget request to Congress for fiscal year 2027 seeking $1.5 trillion in defense spending, a roughly 44% increase over 2026 levels, while proposing a 10% reduction in non-defense discretionary spending totaling $73 billion in cuts.
The proposed defense budget includes funding for Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense system, a pay raise of 5% to 7% for military personnel and $65.8 billion for 34 new combat and support ships. The White House said the request “advances President Trump’s delivery of peace through strength.”
I remember about 15 years or so ago. The republicans wanted to increase the military budget to 600 billion or something like that. Back then the rest of the world were like “why in the fuck is that needed? You’re at war with a bunch of people driving Toyotas with old soviet weapons, hiding in literal holes in mountains! Feed your people and treat their ailments instead!”
I guess now they need about 2.5x that to fight a war that isn’t even a war, but just a
police actionspecial military opperationmilitary aid for Israel…Feed your fucking people and give them healthcare ffs!
Oh yeah.
And the irony is Donald ran on ending foreign wars and affordability whereas Democrats ardently insisted to voters that they had to say the things the billionaires wanted them to in order to win.