There won’t be defense spending cuts
For those who were duped into believing that DOGE is serious about defense budget cuts rather than centralizing control of spending and aligning spending with the political priorities of the Trump/Musk Administration, here’s Secretary of Defense Hesgeth:
“Hegseth said beginning immediately, the Pentagon will pull 8% — or roughly $50 billion — from nonlethal programs in the current budget and refocus that money on President Donald J. Trump’s “America First” priorities for national defense.
“That’s not a cut; it’s refocusing and reinvesting existing funds into building the force that protects you, the American people,” Hegseth said.”
Read past the bafflegab and you see that there won’t be cuts. No surprise, since Congress wouldn’t approve a budget with defense cuts anyway—that’s just tooth fairy thinking. Budget cuts are for civilian programs.
Hesgeth says no cuts to DoD budget
“Hegseth said beginning immediately, the Pentagon will pull 8% — or roughly $50 billion — from nonlethal programs in the current budget and refocus that money on President Donald J. Trump’s “America First” priorities for national defense.
“That’s not a cut; it’s refocusing and reinvesting existing funds into building the force that protects you, the American people,” Hegseth said.”
Read past the bafflegab and you see that there won’t be cuts. No surprise, since Congress wouldn’t approve a budget with defense cuts anyway—that’s just tooth fairy thinking. Budget cuts are for civilian programs.
Hesgeth says no cuts to DoD budget
The resistance from the various rice bowls will be awesome…..
Entertaining bickering btw dinosaur aircraft carriers advocatesand new “defense” boondoggles.
Ike warned us about the military-industrial complex. And here we are.
Defense department needs a huge overhaul. There are too many contractors raking in a lot of $$$ that is totally wasteful. Waste and overpayments have to be stopped. Let’s go President
Trump and cut into all this waste, or get a new defense director that will do the job.
@Vince,
Defense department needs a huge overhaul. The idea that it will get one under Trump is laughably naive. If the Trump/Musk Administration were interested in going after waste and fraud, they’d send in auditors, not a bunch of tech bro toy boys. Trump has no interest in cutting defense spending. The waste is going to people like Musk who are bribing Trump, so it will continue. Hegseth was appointed to do Trump’s bidding, which is to enrich his supporters.