On Monday, President Trump seemed to be positioning himself against Pentagon calls for spending increases, saying that the spending levels are already “crazy” and that he didn’t envision the 2020 military budget should exceed $700 billion, despite Pentagon presumptions it would be $733 billion.
Having met with committee chairs, and Defense Secretary James Mattis, Trump has now completely reversed his position, and is calling on the Pentagon to seek an even bigger spending increase in the next budget.
Administration officials are now saying Mattis was assured that Trump will support a budget of $750 billion. This would be a substantial increase over the previous year’s budget, and over the requested budget.
On top of that, Congress has almost always scrambled to outdo the president with even bigger increases, meaning that unsustainably high budgets are rapidly going to get even more unsustainable.
Trump proclaims that left is right, and, right is left, unsurprisingly, stealing money wherever he can. For some reason, it makes the news.
In other words, he’s possibly our greatest president who will MAGA. This president is a joke–unfortunately on the American people.
That’s because Cheeto appreciates a good fraud when he sees one….. You can bet the neocons aren’t above paying for some more shitty hotels to keep their ATM up and running.
And the Democratic “resistance” will be more than happy to oblige.
It’s about time to just drop that whole Dem/Rep thing unless you properly refer to them as the Dem or Rep funding arm of the neocon party………. After all, accuracy within any language is very important.
I suppose this is because of the wonderful military successes of the last 18 years.
I am beginning to get very dissapointed in Prez. Trump and his big spending ways and inability to put a permanent stop to illegal immigration,,as well as the Republicans being useless for the last two years, except to give themselves a huge tax decrease. He has attacked the trade problems but even at that the trade deficit keeps rising and then he jails a Chinese Bizzness women in Canada for an infraction on the U.S. Iran sanctions,,,wtf? Now the Prez. is going to be tuned up in the media, and maybe court, for buying two women’s silence on a consensual sex romp from several years ago but still when married to his beautiful present wife. Prez. Trump,,, please don’t run again, I am now beginning to think you are a huge A-Hole. 🙁 President Pence would be a great change.
I was about to give you an upvote for coming to your senses regarding Trump and then you went and said that Pence would be a great change.
Wow, Trump changing his mind and caving to the warmongers again. Did Raimondo read this article?
In unrelated news Social Security is going bankrupt and we are going to have to start cutting back benefits.
Trump says we’re spending too much, then too little, it’s almost like he has an inherent aversion to saying “your budget is perfect as presented, good job!” Somehow everyone is always doing it wrong.
Throughout history numerous governments have eventually shipwrecked on the perils of military expenses. There is no reason to believe that ours can survive.
When cleanup time arrives the economic and social demands must be high and must be met. Very high. Otherwise there will be another slipping back into the same cycle. As after 1918 and 1945.
Violence must not happen. Use first amendment rights.
You would think that all our military geniuses at the Pentagon would have read a book or two on societies in the past that overspent their treasures on military funding…
But maybe, like the Orange Moron in the White House, they don’t read…
Why complain about debt and spending? It’s simply not our money.
The banking houses of London and New York create the debt and circulate it
as “dollars”. this is their Pentagon, not ours. They decide who to bomb.
Trump reverses positions more than a Bangkok call-girl.