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Darksheare: "So being that what comes out of democrats mouths are lies, why is it so important to fleece the American taxpayer while ignoring literally everything here?"

In 2024 the US Federal government will spend circa $6.5 trillion, of which roughly $1 trillion is for constitutionally valid national defense and another nearly $1 trillion for constitutionally required national debt interest payments.
All the rest has nothing to do with the US Constitution and can well be called "fleecing" the American taxpayer.

National defense is a basic constitutional function of Federal government, so if as a true-blue fiscal conservative, you were overly concerned about "fleecing", you'd not begin to look for it in national defense.

Rather, you'd being looking for "fleecing" in all the other non-constitutional government spending accounts, including, in rough round numbers:

$1,400 billion -- Social Security
$1,700 billion -- Medicare and Medicaid
$ 800 billion -- Other welfare benefits
$ 200 billion -- Federal education spending
$ 200 billion -- Infrastructure spending
$ 200 billion -- All others

Of course, if you wish to argue that Ukraine has nothing to do with US national defense, that's a different matter, and we can discuss, yet again, why Ukraine really truly does matter.

But if you're looking for unconstitutional Federal "waste, fraud & abuse" to eliminate, I don't think our constitutional defense spending is the right place to start looking.

“All the rest has nothing to do with the US Constitution and can well be called “fleecing” the American taxpayer.”

Like: paying pension for a foreign country, paying border security for a foreign country, doing constitutional mandated governmental action for a foreign country all while simultaneously ignoring those self same duties bere.