In summary

$1.04T in new spending and

$0.03T in cuts.

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These are just a few items cherry picked from the entire thing.

13% jump in military spending is hardly “cherry picked”

Your list has like 5 items out of the hundreds on the list. Yes, these are cherry picked to prove a point. That's fine, but lets be honest about it at least.

It doesn't really matter. Congress will pass whatever omnibus monstrosity they want,the will sign it, they will increase the debt, pay more in interest, and remove the debt ceiling again.

We will soon be well over 1.1 trillion in interest. This is not the way for a country to survive or be managed, cherry picked or not

It's not 1T in new spending. We already spend about 870B on defense now 1T.

BUT....we are paying more and more interest. That's not a budgeted item.

I stand corrected. The OP summary misled me. Full source here. Defense spending increase by $113bn, not 1T. GPT can give useful summary. Small net increase overall.

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Don’t forget $43B to DHS!

Oh for sure. I hope to see them get more fiscally responsible. I think they're not going hard enough at savings. But I was wrong in my first post so had to correct.