At what cost to his office?
I am pro-military(and served) but are the present threats to our notion so great that no cost was too much to bear for the immediate widespread refurbishing of our defense?
Could this bill have not have waited for a few months?
Could money have not been shifted around in the short term for critical items??
Could Trump have used a government shutdown as an opportunity to demonstrate to the public what was in play in the bill?
In short, were all the undesirable things others more knowledgeable tell us are in the bill, worth the price of immediate rehab of defense?
And, of course, what will be the political price of his "read my lips" action?
You weren't paying attention to how much Obama cut back and intentionally neglected upgrades and modernization to military ships, planes, weapon systems, etc.?
Trump absolutely made a promise to solve the problem. He keeps his promises.
Then, what? Members of both parties of would be piling on and its doubtful he could have gotten what he wanted in the way of military spending.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/24/us-military-decimated-under-obama-only-marginally-/
The U.S. military is shedding so many troops and weapons it is only “marginally able” to defend the nation and falls short of the Obama administration’s national security strategy, according to a new report by The Heritage Foundation on Tuesday.
“The U.S. military itself is aging. It’s shrinking in size,” said Dakota Wood, a Heritage analyst. “And it’s quickly becoming problematic in terms of being able to address more than one major conflict.”
President Obama’s latest strategy is to size the armed forces so that the four military branches have sufficient troops, ships, tanks and aircraft to win a large war, while simultaneously acting to “deny the objectives of — or impose unacceptable costs on — another aggressor in another region.”