Not sure if this is the way…
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Looks like DOGE was dodged
How bout the pentagon passes an audit before we give them more tax dollars.
I'm 2000, we spent $304B on defense. That's about 560B today. Why in God's name are we talking about double that amount it was in 2000? Insane
In summary
$1.04T in new spending and
$0.03T in cuts.
🤦
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.
Utter failure of leadership. Promise the moon and delivery moon pie BS. I can speak to the $2.5B of cuts to funding for Water & Sewer infrastructure- just pushes costs to local jurisdictions customers and ratepayers. Which means increased risk of system failures and polluted waters and communities. Costs also born by all in those communities. All based on Federal requirements and regulations (Clean Water Act, etc).
Back to philosophical question, should each of us pay our fair share for investments in roads, clean water, sewer service? If no general public contribution (government), then that is a shitton of money to pay for each of us.
I’m always puzzled on how the republicans have been able to capture the message that they are the party of peace. When they always increase military expenses.
Entire line item list if anyone cares to look:
https://whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Fiscal-year-2026-discretionary-budget-request.pdf
TY, I'll look!
Why do we need any money for military spending? $TRUMP ended the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Nobody needs to spend on military anymore.
It was always a futile task.
'He' was too arrogant to recognise the futility in trying to find things to cut, while the very system depends on spending.
The spending will continue. At best you get more spending in some areas, while offsetting in the cutting of low hanging fruit.
Ahhh yes, nothing says ‘fiscal responsibility’ like pumping trillions into bombs and billionaires while telling cold, sick, and thirsty people to bootstrap harder.
Politicians letting us down again? Huh who’d a thunk
The cuts are all from unconstitutional entities. The increases are unfortunate.