Hmm let's give an extra $500 billion to an agency that has failed all of its financial audits...

This has been going on for decades.

Reagan wanted a 'six hundred ship' Navy. The actual Navy had no idea what he was talking about.

remember when they had to keep increasing the budget to sustain 2 war zones for decades and then when they pulled out of both Iraq and afganistan they...kept increasing the budget???? Where the fuck is the money going?

Give all of it to the army corps of engineers and build public transportation networks.

I've got an idea. Use it to buy weapons for Ukraine.

But there's no money for public health, public education or anything that helps people.

Here's an idea, give it back

If returned to tax payers, this would mean a $3,030 payment for every single one of us.

That'd at least pay the rent one month in Trump's economy.

The really crazy part is when you look at it as a percentage of the budget and compare it to pre war levels. It isn't what you think. In 2000 the budget was $304 billion, a total of 16.7% of the federal budget. Then 2 wars later of ballooning costs and it grew all the way up to $962 billion (the 2025 approved budget. Not counting the random $500 billion he is trying to add in). But this is now only 13.7% of thr total budget. Somehow the percentage has gone down.

Now, if you know numbers you should know that percentages get messy and are misleading to look at. The real question is what the fuck is going on with the giant ballooning budget that has gotten spending so out of control that this monstrous defense spending is now somehow a lower percentage than pre-war spending??? And the real kicker is that we are ballooning on spending, but none of it is going to actually helping the people paying the taxes! None of it is helping built up infrastructure, invest in education, build communities -nothing that helps build this country.

Trump is blowing through money and we doing even get anything out of it.

They should spend it all on passing a financial audit, for once.

That is America's biggest problem right now. Forget affordability, forget inflation. It's the sartorial problem to beat all problems: the pockets of American politicians are not deep and strong enough for all the money they have to line them with. Just think of all the poor sweatshops in Vietnam that have to re-cut, re-fit, and re-sew all the pockets.

I’m sure they’ll give it to Israel somehow

Give it to the poor, build housing and use soldiers for the labour under a contractor? Anything besides blow people up and fraud please.

How much does a Battlestar Galactica cost, we're gonna need one

Then give it the fuck back!

Trump wants to buy the Army's loyalty.

You can't have a coup without the army. He's replaced the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with bootlickers probably.

Just give it to Lockheed and Raytheon as a tip

Shit, I thought the US military budget was at $960 billion, not $1.5 trillion.

How about universal healthcare and a high speed rail network?

...And yet no one in power right now will push back against it because they don't want to be seen as "weak on defense"

Is there an index fund of just defense contractors?

1. Add lobster as topping choice for daily departmental pizza parties.

I can think of a few military contractors that would live a cool 500b

The rate things are going maybe they should plumb it into Baby Oil to lube themselves up for the pedo party protection racket. They all seem quiet apt at following their chiefs orders.

You could make so many military datacenters with that. Then they could make their own AI and call it PatriotGPT, it'd be a very strong & powerful use of funds.

This is such a stupid way to frame it. The Pentagon would have no issue to (semi-reasonably) spend extra $50 trillion, if you give them 20 years to do it.

But most military factories are already busy pumping out equipment for Ukraine etc. And US shipyards are atrophied from underinvestment, plus no new ship designs are ready for production despite US Navy needing urgent modernization. So yes, if you tell the Pentagon to spend half a trillion in a year on short notice, that creates logistic issues. This will be true for pretty much any military, no matter how underfunded or overfunded. It does not tell you anything about whether the US military needs the money.

Maybe they should revisit some old projects, like that time they made plans to blow up the moon but never got around to it.

Ladies and gentlemen and other distinguished guests, the party of fiscal responsibility™

This is the same military that makes sailors at sea pay for their own food.

Nuclear weapons. Trump already said.

The GDP is 29 to 31 trillion 2024-2025.

1.5 trillion to fuck up most of the planet including ourselves and reduce the GDP to say 25 billion.... Priceless! Well 31-25....6billion.

Health spending in the US is 4.9trillion -5.3 trillion~$14,570.00 per person on the lower end. This is 7% higher than in 2022.

Yeah that's numbers and they say that this government doesn't care about our well being. They have an idiot leading us. "They" referring to the actual electors, who we are not. We don't vote for the sonobabich who's wasting our money and time trying to cover-up his sexual predation crimes.