Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Monday that the Pentagon will soon have its first $1 trillion budget despite the Trump administration’s pledges to cut government spending.
Hegseth made the announcement on X while sharing a video of President Trump saying that his administration approved a plan for a $1 trillion military budget. “Nobody’s seen anything like it. We have to build out military, and we’re very cost-conscious, but the military is something we have to build, and we have to be strong,” he said while hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Trump said he was “proud to say” it will be the biggest military budget “we’ve ever done.”
Hegseth wrote on X, “Thank you Mr. President! COMING SOON: the first TRILLION dollar [Defense Department] budget.”
Hegseth said the Pentagon would “spend every taxpayer dollar wisely,” but he is currently overseeing a massive bombing campaign in Yemen that’s failed to achieve its stated goal of stopping Houthi attacks and will soon cost over $1 billion in just a month of operations.
While the Pentagon has never had a $1 trillion budget, the actual cost of total US military spending has exceeded $1 trillion for years.
The 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which President Biden signed into law in December 2023, totaled $895 billion. According to veteran defense analyst Winslow Wheeler, based on the $895 billion NDAA, US national security spending for 2025 is expected to reach about $1.77 trillion.
Wheeler’s estimate accounts for military-related spending from other government agencies not funded by the NDAA, such as the Department of Veteran Affairs and Homeland Security. It also includes the national security share of the interest accrued on the US debt and other factors.
Trump and Hegseth’s comments suggest the president will request a $1 trillion NDAA for 2026, which would really bring total US military spending close to $2 trillion.
Typical bourgeois: cut every useful expenditure but beef up military, police and prisons.
Rumor of direct war with Iran grow stronger by the minute. Do you think there will be war this saturday? My crystal ball says that not before June or so but I've been wrong before.
Woopee! "“Thank you Mr. President! COMING SOON: the first TRILLION dollar [Defense Department] budget.” Per reports, a lot of new product has recently been delivered to the Mid East. Some were fooled again by "peace through strength" Trump who appears to be an enthusiastic follower of the worst neocon ever, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and is carrying out Zbig's plan for destroying Mid East borders–if only to show US isn't irrelevant, as Zbig worried. And why not? Enslaved US taxpayers pay all the bills. I do thank Mr. Musk for being the only person connected with government ever to care at all about US taxpayers. He fought hard to get some of our money back but it appears it's already been spent on more weapons of war, death, and misery.
You mean, Musk, whose spacex systems are used for surveillance, intelligence and target acquisition for the MIC? That Musk?
The real defense budget was more than one trillion with Biden already, Trump is not even the #I. Musk must care about taxpayers, he needs them so he can hold on to his money he took from them in the first place.
Apparently, President Trump is cutting the USAID budget, laying off staff, etc. to increase the defense budget for armament, a future war.
https://www.usaid.gov/
Cutting = increasing. War is peace, etc. Beyond criminal, it's boring.
I saw a biology education film decades ago of banana slugs learning to adapt to patterns. Banana slugs > American voters.
Only a matter of time before you're wheeling wheelbarrows filled with $8000 bills with Chuck Norris' face on them to the market to buy an egg.
Time to sing the 'I have a golden ticket' song from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
Want not waste not?…!!!
He needs and wants more war, he created an unimaginable disaster in less than 80 days.
In US everything is about records…!
All the money in the world goes to MIC and Pentagon… yet there is no functioning hypersonic missile or an effective modern air defense system…?!
Please compare:
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3999835/army-and-navy-successfully-test-conventional-hypersonic-missile/
https://www.defensenews.com/land/2025/04/02/us-army-aiming-for-next-hypersonic-missile-test-in-december/
https://www.newsweek.com/uk-us-hypersonic-missile-development-test-virginia-2055974
https://www.sustainability-times.com/in-depth/americas-hypersonic-missile-nightmare-this-alarming-technological-race-sees-us-trailing-adversaries-igniting-fears-and-global-power-shifts/
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF11991 The U.S. Army’s Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW): Dark Eagle
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58924 U.S. Hypersonic Weapons and Alternatives
https://sgp.fas.org/crs/weapons/R45811.pdf Hypersonic Weapons: Background and Issues for Congress
https://news.usni.org/2025/03/11/u-s-set-for-200m-sale-in-support-of-japanese-hypersonic-missile-program
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/u-s-australia-significant-progress-hypersonic-weapon/
https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/capabilities/hypersonics.html
https://www.northropgrumman.com/space/counter-hypersonics
Did you read all of these? Any? What is the point of posting the results of web search?
If you analyze the internet links, you will surely recognize an international cooperation (U.S., United Kingdom, Australia, Japan) in the development and successful testing of the hypersonic missile.
https://www.popsci.com/technology/hypersonic-weapon-milestones/ "from 1944 to now"
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/sp-4232.pdf "Facing the Heat Barrier: A History of Hypersonics"
https://media.defense.gov/2010/sep/27/2001329740/-1/-1/0/afd-100927-033.pdf "The Hypersonic Revolution"
Pete – why just a trillion. Tell Trump you need at least 3 trillions to win in every country on this planet nd tell him that he will then be regarded as the best emperor of planet earth ever. you will get your trillions.
Cutting = increasing. War is peace, etc. Beyond criminal, it's boring.
I saw a biology education film decades ago of banana slugs learning to adapt to patterns. Banana slugs > American voters.
Only a matter of time before you're wheeling wheelbarrows filled with $8000 bills with Chuck Norris' face on them to the market to buy an egg.
"…banana slugs learning to adapt to patterns…"
Hells, slime-mold shows better pathfinding and decision-making skills than Trump's cavalcade of clowns.
Seriously, look up the slime-mold experiments, it's pretty cool stuff.
Netanyahu and Trump, two cruel, insane killers, nothing good can come from them, sickening people and so are their supporters.
They are without a shred of simple human decency. They are despicable people.
A trillion-dollar military budget is not a brag.
It is for them.
$37 trillion in debt and counting and the “defense” budget always gets an increase. The road to fiscal ruin has now become a 4 lane highway
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-considering-proposal-cut-thousands-troops-europe-officials-sa-rcna199603
Will President Trump and the Pentagon send troops stationed in Germany into the Ukrainian conflagration?
Once the Russians take out 4,000-5,000 American troops, the Russian MoD will videotape the slaughter later to broadcast on Rossiya 1 to 145 million Russians and other interested parties.
The technicality is crossing into Ukraine from Poland. That makes Poland and Germany active participants.
A strange, 'irrational' world we inhabit. There's little need to sustain a trillion-dollar Pentagon budget, as America's military effectiveness borders on mendacity. They might as well tell the Pentagon's military and civilian personnel to stay home and collect their salary.
Where have I heard that before?
February 13th, this year:
“Trump is anti- deep state, the peace president”
People in general and the media in particular are still listening and believing any little thing Trump dreams up over night to reverse the next day or month.
Only people who are as mentally deranged like he is could believe a word he says.
He is crazy enough to say and really believe what he said too.
He still is a POS.
He could use a better makeup to cover his stupid face up to his ears. There is really nothing nice to say about a hateful creature like him.
But he did say when things "settle down" and "straighten out". By then, a 50% cut will bring us down to a trillion.
And least it proves he was thinking about it.
If a brain fart caused him to hiccup, well,
we'll all just have to see if he remembers.
Now as much as if ever!
The Biggest, Tuffest, Mostest Most Expensive
(and Expansive) Military In The World!
Brought to you by the folks you thought would make it all come cheaper…
hah laff's on you…
You people are so mean. Don't you understand? The Pentagon needs the money!!!
You people are so mean. Don't you understand? The Pentagon needs the money!!!