Trump Requests A GINORMOUS Military Budget

Donald Trump's budget proposal included a $1.5 trillion defense budget, marking a 42% increase for the Pentagon. This was coupled with a request for an additional $350 billion for military weapons and expanding the defense industrial base, potentially pushing total defense spending to nearly $2 trillion.

The plan would boost the Pentagon by 42%. We already spend more on defense than basically all of the other countries in the world combined, and they want to raise it in 1 year by 42%. And then, they also want Congress to approve another 350 billion dollars for military weapons and an expansion of the defense industrial base.

To offset the massive increase in military spending, the budget proposal called for a 10% cut across all non-defense federal spending. This includes vital areas such as NASA, national parks, medical research, and various subsidies benefiting American families.

They are proposing a 10% cut to non-defense spending. Like everything the federal government does that isn't defense, they're going to cut 10% out of it. That's NASA, that's the parks department, that's medical research, that's subsidies for anything that goes to you and your family, 10% cuts across the board.

The hosts contend that the American public is 'furious' about economic struggles and clearly desires domestic investment over increased military spending. They point to existing political ads targeting Republicans for excessive military spending and note that passing such a budget via reconciliation would require nearly unanimous Republican support in an election year, which is unlikely given some GOP members' wariness.

The American people have been wildly clear in polls about how furious about all of this that they are. You have people like Representative Tim Burchett, Republican of Tennessee, saying, 'I'm very wary of voting for excessive spending in defense.' There are already ads being run about how much money is being wasted on this war.

The hosts argue that the U.S. is the 'aggressor' in many conflicts, not the threatened party, and questions the necessity of such a large defense budget. They highlight that U.S. taxpayer money is funding social benefits in other countries, like Israel (paid college tuition, health care), while Americans face cuts to their own domestic programs and struggle with high costs for essentials.

We are the aggressors in all these wars. There's nobody threatening us. We are the ones threatening everyone. We are the rogue regime, us and Israel. All of our money now is going overseas to a war that, again, the American people do not support, and to places like Israel, and they enjoy all of the benefits that we are denied here in the United States. Things like their college tuition is paid for. They get money for having children... their health care is paid for. Paid for with our money.