“ Reality is we all know they will need to be cut at some point, likely very soon.”
Why? There’s enough money for us to have hundreds of military bases around the word, pay most of the cost NATO - instead of Europe paying - and subsidize Zelensky’s public-sector pension in Ukraine. But there’s not rub money to help seniors in America?
“Why?”
The math isn’t that hard. Go look at the budget yourself and see. You can cut a thousand things that you think are “wasteful” and you won’t get anywhere close to finding the money to cover our unfunded entitlements.
Cost of military bases pales in comparison to entitlements.