House Republicans on Tuesday passed a budget blueprint that would raise military spending by $100 billion, a plan backed by President Trump despite his suggestions that Pentagon spending could be cut.
The budget plan also extends $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, would add $3 trillion to the deficit, and raise the debt ceiling by $4 trillion. It passed along party lines in a vote of 217-215, with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) being the only Republican to vote against it.
Explaining his opposition, Massie cited the increases in the deficit. “If the Republican budget passes, the deficit gets worse, not better,” he wrote on X a day before the vote.
The Senate recently passed its own budget resolution that would increase military spending by $150 billion, but it didn’t include the tax cuts. Trump has said he wants the budget plan and tax cuts to be put together in “one big beautiful bill,” backing the House’s version.
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), chair of the House Armed Services Committee, said the extra $100 billion in military spending could be used to secure the southern border, among other things.
“The $100 billion in defense spending this resolution unlocks will enable us to begin restoring American deterrence, prioritizing lethality and ensuring peace through strength,” Rogers said, according to Stars and Stripes.
When Republican Senators introduced their version of the budget plan, they said the increase in military spending could be used to fund President Trump’s idea for an “Iron Dome for America,” a missile defense project that will come with a huge price tag and likely start a new arms race.
WTF?!?!
Drumpfers are some of the most gullible and suggestible people you'll ever encounter
But, its OK, because Orange Jebus is gonna save the world, right?
The must gullible people are the ones who choose one of the dipoles of the uniparty to angrily buzz around. Under Trump some necessary reforms and course corrections are made that would have been more difficult under Harris, but it's still the same interests to be served and they are not of those of the American people. And they are never going to be.
Harris would have increased military spending, Trump increases military spending, Jill Stein for example would not have increased military spending, that is why she will never be let anywhere near the centre of power.
But if Trump oversteps he could accidently drown in the Gulf of America just as easily as any other.
I mentioned the other day on some site that Trump has nothing to fear from the CIA, unless his ego gets even more out of bounce and he thinks he can overpower them. Then they or whoever will not use some childish assassination attempts like the last two. The next one will work.
“At some point, when things settle down"
“When we straighten it all out"
That's what Trump said when talking about slashing the "defense" budget by 50%. I guess things haven't settled down or we haven't quite straightened it all out just yet.
But you have to give it to Trump, the con artist genius. There aren't too many like him. He uses the bullhorn, almost daily now to woo the public to his "peace plans", his reduction of the Pentagon budget, his savings of billions. Then on the other end of the performance, behind the scenes, in the dressing rooms the real deals are formulated. But when the stage director comes out announcing the "biggest Show on Earth" the public does not think about the dressing rooms activity. They want dazzle and glamour and a good show.
Look at Apple. trump boasted how he persuaded them to have theri AI plant in Texas – the best AI creation ever. We are number one and they will create millions of jobs.
Of course he did not mention that AI works eventually for digital currency, credit score AI aps and other "wonderful" none human creations to turn us into machines.
I commented in a previous entry on alleged military budget cuts: I'll believe when I see it. Well, seems I was right to be skeptic.
The issue is Trump doesn't consider himself a Republican…! Though he had to use the platform to get elected…! So Trump Party talks about cuts and the House and Senate pass more money…! If Trump doesn't veto any of these bills, Russia would know for sure that he is full of crap,,,!
The article clearly says that the bill was backed by Trump.
The only thing clear is that Trump is not coherent, and that was clear long ago anyhow. Russia knows but they can’t do much, Putin even said that he preferred Biden to Trump, some took it as a joke but IMO he said it for real: better deal with a zombie backed by more or less rational agents than with a madman who doens’t know sh*t but thinks he knows everything and is backed by perilous agents of chaos like Musk, Thiel or Adelson. At least Rubio has a somewhat cooler head but I doubt he can manage that wild bunch adequately.
Anyway, the USA is a militaristic imperialist regime, it wasn’t rational to expect military budget cuts. The Dark Lords of Wall Street will never allow that, nor anything else that makes a difference such as letting the real state, pharma-medical or university bubbles to burst. They will eventually but only via uncontrolled factors (Chaos is more powerful than any shadowy clique)-
He is backing the single package dual budget more than the military budget alone…!
Russia never refused to work even with European clowns. Trump is more consistent despite all his blunders. So, there are no problems. It looks, Trump and Putin got already some agreements concerning economic cooperation. The arms race is not a new thing. No one should be surprised about that.
I am sure Russia already knows, even without that budget fiasco.
I also commented on that before, saying hat they will cut some money from hammers and toilet seats to make the public happy but will divert that money into more killing weapons and manpower.
Massie on the budget with Judge Nap
https://rumble.com/v6pmhd6-judgingfreedom.html?e9s=src_v1_upp
Disney on Ice is more entertaining than this.
Combine the military budget and tax cut to better con the US public…!
He sells and the public buys.
Cut and Spend?!?!
"Cut and Spend?!"
And borrow – cutting social programs alone doesn't leave the government enough money to make up for those wealthy-skewed tax cuts:
"The House Republicans’ budget resolution calls for committees to enact $2 trillion in deeply harmful cuts through 2034 in programs and services for families and communities, including cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and student loans. The resolution also authorizes the Ways and Means Committee to increase the deficit by $4.5 trillion over the same time period — this is the “instruction” that allows the committee to craft legislation cutting taxes by this amount. "
["House Republican Budget Takes Away Health Care, Food Aid to Pay for Expanded Tax Cuts for Wealthy," Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 2/21/25]
So he's going to keep asking for increases so that when he finally makes his "cuts", they won't make any difference. Looks like a plan.
He joked about cuts, and sure it was understood as a joke in Kremlin. That's why Putin agreed to those cuts without any consultations. They laughed a bit and that is all. It was the same kind of joke as Putin's proposition to join NATO.
The hypocritical scum will probably cut social spending and cause more people to fall into poverty and homelessness, but that's ok because the reptiles need their tax cuts and imperial military budget.
"ensuring peace through strength"
Euro-bureaucrats had the same rhetoric when they pumped cash and weapons into Ukraine. That ensured only more of corruption and more of economic problems for EU.
What kind of peace they want to ensure now? Where? Are they going to ensure the global peace through arms race? And what they are planning to do with their evergrowing national debt?
Get the 100 billion from all of the countries that the USA protects?
Further confirmation that the firings and layoffs have nothing to do with saving money, and everything to do with consolidating and centralizing power in the office of the Mobster in Chief.
What do you expect? This is AI in action, incompetent and overpaid fed. employees. They should be fired on the spot.
AI on legs Trump, the man of peace, wants more money to buy more bombs, an AI oxymoron if there ever was one.
Rep. Massie watch out. Trump and Musk will make sure you lose in the next election.
Why would they bother? It's over 500 to 1. Massie hasn't made a difference and Massie isn't going to make a difference.
What ever happened to Freddie Kruger Musk and The Great Chainsaw Budget Massacre?
Truth is: the only thing the USI is able to make is War. Trouble is, there's no return on investment, the dollar gets ever weaker, and ever more is required to maintain the Capital of Killing.
The House and Senate are a shitshow. IMO, we are at a juncture without a recent precedent. It's more like 1776, but with a monumental difference: the founding fathers were not a clot of incompetent nobodies who couldn't find their ass in the dark.
Our current crop are an existential threat to the existence of the United States – and possibly to planet Earth as well.
No one could have predicted this…