Posted on 02/07/2025 1:21:51 PM PST by McGruff
President Trump said Friday that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative will look at the Defense Department’s massive budget after making significant cuts at other federal agencies — most notably the US Agency for International Development (USAID) — while charging that critics of the effort “don’t love our country.”
“Pentagon, Education, just about everything. We’re going to go through everything,” Trump said at a joint White House press conference with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.
“It was very, very unfortunate. You’re not going to find anything like that, but you’re going to find a lot. And I’ve instructed him to go check out Education, to check out the Pentagon, which is the military. And you know, sadly, you’ll find some things that are pretty bad,” the president went on.
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And that were the real money is. Everything gets stashed in the Def Budget. “You have to vote for Defense” has been mantra in DC for decades
I can’t wait till he starts slashing budgets (and personnel) at the FBI and IRS.
I’ll be there’s a lot of money laundering in Social Security also.
I’ll be there’s a lot of money laundering in Social Security also.
I can say with some confidence that Weapon Systems Acquisition is a total joke. So much money wasted. Everything is over budget, behind schedule, and fails to meet requirements (but— shrug — it’s good enough). Huge hole they just throw money into.
Soc Sec is a differnt beast because money is not appropriated for it.
Defense gets annual appropriations so it a great place for Congress to stash stuff that can’t pass on it’s own
I think even Elon Musk, AI, an entire zip code of super computers complexes, and an army of autistic savants are going to meet their match with the Pentagon.
A group of six or seven kids aged 19 to 25 is doing what the allegedly “conservative” Republicans in Congress could not do for 25 years.
ah..learned something new today then.
It’s not all a total joke, that is a gross distortion and oversimplification. A significant number of weapons systems we have procured and fielded over the years were great systems and excellent investments. One of the problems now is that technology is moving so fast that it is difficult to get some things fielded before they or their components become outdated or obsolete. Still would take almost any of our equipment over Chinese or Russian stuff any day.
Yep! Look in the NDAA, Elon! That’s where it’s all buried, year after year!!
How far back can they go??
Someone needs to find the money Phil Perry “lost” when he was working for Bush/ Cheney at DOD.
Liz Cheneys husband.
He’s a busy man! Once was Lead lawyer for Monsanto at a firm Hunter Biden uses. Latham Watkins also works for Chinese military.
Liz Cheneys husband.
Follow the $$.
https://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2007/02/exposing-dept-of-job-security-who-is.html
I see some BIG push back coming.
I can’t wait for Trump’s Super Bowl interview.
He knows how big the audience will be.
I suspect he going to reveal some truths not yet revealed.
More shock and awe.
I repeat, I can’t wait.
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