More Money, More Money

With the successful raid on Venezuela and the arrest of Maduro Donny’s pathetic gang of minions set about threatening other nations if they do not play ball with the US…..Colombia, Iran, Cuba, Mexico and of course the BS du jour, Greenland.

And now to sure up his threats Donny wants to expand the ‘defense’ budget to $1.5 trillion….(yes that is a “T”)….

President Trump on Wednesday proposed setting US military spending at $1.5 trillion in 2027, citing “troubled and dangerous times.” Trump called for the massive surge in spending days after he ordered a US military operation to seize Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and spirit him out of the country to face drug trafficking charges in the US, the AP reports. The 2026 military budget is set at $901 billion. Trump in recent days has also called for taking over the Danish territory of Greenland for national security reasons and has suggested he’s open to carrying out military operations in Colombia. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ominously warned that longtime adversary Cuba “is in trouble.”

  • This will allow us to build the ‘Dream Military’ that we have long been entitled to and, more importantly, that will keep us SAFE and SECURE, regardless of foe,” Trump said in a Truth Social post announcing his proposal. He said he arrived at the $1.5 trillion figure after “long and difficult negotiations with Senators, Congressmen, Secretaries, and other Political Representatives.”
  • The military just received a boost of some $175 billion in the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill” of tax breaks and spending reductions that Trump signed into law last year. Insisting on more funding for the Pentagon is almost certain to run into resistance from Democrats who work to maintain parity between changes in defense and nondefense spending. But it’s also sure to draw objections from the GOP’s deficit hawks who have pushed back against increased military spending.
  • But Trump said he feels comfortable surging spending on the military because of increased revenue created by his administration through tariffs imposed on friends and foes around the globe since his return to office. He said tariff revenue would cover the massive increase. The New York Times labels the claim false, noting that while the US collected more than $200 billion from tariff revenue last year, Trump has already pledged to hand it to Americans feeling the effects of tariffs, including farmers. He has also promised $2,000 tariff rebate checks for most Americans.

“Troubled and dangerous times”….I agree but only because we have a mentally ill orange slug leading the way.

More money for the War Department?

Defense industry must be masturbating to the thought.

Seriously?

Those people cannot account for the money they already have….

Two days after the US Senate voted on a bipartisan basis to authorize just over $900 billion in military spending for the coming fiscal year, the chief recipient of that taxpayer money—the Department of Defense—announced it failed an audit of its books for the eighth consecutive year.

The now-predictable audit result was announced Friday by the Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) after an examination of the agency’s roughly $4.6 trillion in assets. The OIG said it identified 26 “material weaknesses”—major flaws in internal controls over financial reports—in the Pentagon’s accounting.

The Pentagon remains the only US federal agency that has yet to pass an independent, department-wide audit, as required by law. But its repeated failures to return a clean audit haven’t deterred Congress from adding to its coffers each year.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/pentagon-8th-consecutive-audit

Yeah that is what is needed more money for the Pentagon can loss, misspend or steal.

What’s Donny’s game?

We all know what he is thinking….(is that possible with so many Big Macs in one’s diet)….

This is ludicrous….this is an offense to the people of this country….this needs to be flushed down the toilet with the rest of Donny’s crap.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

 

8 thoughts on “More Money, More Money

  1. At some stage, the US is going to run out of money. That’s what is happening to Putin in Russia. No doubt DT thinks all the land grabs and oil grabs will finance the US, but that is a long-term strategy, and it will take decades for that money to materialise. He will be long dead, having left chaos behind him.
    Best wishes, Pete.

  2. Now ease up on Donny, you guys — you know that we cannot dominate the entire world without a large modern military stronger than any other …

  3. There’s a lot going on right now.

    Trump right now is running scared. Even he now realizes what kind of trouble he’s in. He was recently literally begging the GOP members of the House to get out there and win their elections because he openly admitted that if the Dems get control of Congress in the upcoming election he and his entire administration are going to be impeached and facing serious criminal charges. He even brought up the possibility of stopping the mid-term elections entirely.

  4. For those who aren’t aware, the US has more than a dozen military bases in Greenland…they were shut down by previous administrations as being unneeded…IF Frump REALLY wanted to secure the US, he could open them all back up – Greenland has said so repeatedly. It’s NOT about that: it’s an illegal land grab to get their minerals to line the pockets of the most corrupt political government in modern history….don’t be fooled – read the facts.

    1. Exactly….and great advice to read the facts….but you know no matter the facts it is hard to convince an idiot. chuq

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