"The Pentagon Gets $901 Billion. You Get the Bill."
by Redacted
"The House of Representatives passed a military budget worth a whopping $901 billion. That is mind boggling! It is nearly $200 billion more than it was just five years ago. The bill not only slaps the American public with more debt, it also prevents the Trump administration from withdrawing troops from Europe or South Korea. Think about that! The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, not to wage it, and certainly not to prevent a President from ending it. Yet this bill effectively blocks the Commander in Chief from withdrawing troops from ongoing military commitments.
The budget also includes $400 million for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which the Trump administration did not ask for. In fact, the sum total is $8 billion more than the Trump administration asked for but this happens most years. The President suggests a military budget and Congress adds to it because, why the heck not? The bill will offer a 3.8% raise for military personnel, which is good, but Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said over the weekend that he wanted the Trump administration to be remembered for its "great military build up" so undoubtedly this payroll is about to balloon.
The revised bill now goes back to the Senate for a vote before heading to President Trump’s desk. Both of them will pass it and we are all the worse for it because of the skyrocketing debt and endless conflicts that this will enable. It wasn’t always like this. We once had leaders who understood what reckless government spending does to working people. Here is my favorite quote from a President from the past. May we find a leader like him again before it is too late."
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