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Donald Trump Announces $1 Trillion Pentagon Budget: 'Have to Be Strong'
Newsweek ^ | Story by Shane Croucher

Posted on 04/08/2025 10:29:17 AM PDT by NoLibZone

President Donald Trump has said his administration will raise the Pentagon's budget.

We have to build our military and we're very cost-conscious, but the military is something that we have to build," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday. "And we have to be strong because you've got a lot of bad forces out there now."

Newsweek has contacted the White House and the Department of Defense for comment via emails sent outside regular business hours.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: military
Despite not being able to be audited or pass an audit.

The military and intelligence industrial complex never losses.

1 posted on 04/08/2025 10:29:17 AM PDT by NoLibZone
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To: NoLibZone

I have no problem with a big military budget. That’s what the gov’t is there for - a strong military to protect our country and our freedoms from foreign threats INCLUDING INVASION of illegal immigrants!!!

In keeping with that, most of the rest of the federal gov’t should be scrapped to again restore our constitutionally -protected lives and liberties from an intrusive and coercive gov’t.

Amen.


2 posted on 04/08/2025 10:35:29 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: NoLibZone

Safety first.


3 posted on 04/08/2025 10:41:40 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
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To: NoLibZone

Military bring secret service to the department.
VA bring Medicare to the department.
Agriculture bring food safety to it
Treasury and commerce combine.
Justice

Everything else should go to states are be cut 90 percent. IRS could easily go to skeleton crew by implementing a flat tax. NASA can go away and allow Space X to run it.


4 posted on 04/08/2025 10:50:22 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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5 posted on 04/08/2025 11:04:18 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: NoLibZone
The military...industrial complex never losses.

The traditional whipping boy cliche lacking context in the real world.

Let's see what the SecDef and POTUS can actually do before we bury their efforts in worn out cliches. There is a real world out there full of mean people that have sworn us harm.

6 posted on 04/08/2025 11:41:18 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: Jim W N

Big Pentagon budget is ok, but not for protecting everyone else...US first. And the waste, fraud and abuse is not acceptable, either.


7 posted on 04/08/2025 11:58:07 AM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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To: Jim W N

If they used those billions to actually expel the 60 million illegals here, I’d be fine with it.

Instead way too much waste, fraud and abuse.


8 posted on 04/08/2025 12:01:03 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: ripnbang; 9YearLurker
the waste, fraud and abuse is not acceptable

Agreed.

But as I said, I'm OK with a legitimate big military budget and scrap most of the rest of the federal gov't, $3+ trillion of which is unconstitutional.

9 posted on 04/08/2025 12:13:07 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Jim W N

I’m good with scrapping the unconstitutional stuff, but the military is still way too expensive IMO. The only pass I’d give them is a one-time elimination of 60 million illegals.

After that I’d line much of their training up along our southern border.


10 posted on 04/08/2025 12:15:51 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: pfflier

MIC is the bunch that can kill anything. ANYTHING.

This sleeping Cerberus can be left for next year or the year after.


11 posted on 04/08/2025 12:22:59 PM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: 9YearLurker

To me, the priority is:

1st priority: Scrap the $3+ trillion unconstitutional portion of the federal gov’t - the greatest threat to our lives, liberties, and free pursuits.

2nd Priority: Build the greatest military defense in the world - the primary job of the gov’t.

3rd Priority: Get rid of the corruption, fraud, and waste in the military.


12 posted on 04/08/2025 12:24:27 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Jim W N

Too much. Send in DOGE for a year and when the dust settles we can do what we need for half that, IMHO.


13 posted on 04/08/2025 1:24:33 PM PDT by Hartlyboy
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To: NoLibZone
Despite not being able to be audited or pass an audit.

Hegseth has already said he would make sure they can pass an audit. It might take a couple of years but imagine the trash they'll have to wade thru.
Not to mention any lingering traitors hiding in the woodwork trying to obstruct.

14 posted on 04/08/2025 1:43:43 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: NoLibZone

Might be time to support the military as China may think it’s time to carve out their co-prosperity sphere…


15 posted on 04/08/2025 2:06:36 PM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.)
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To: Hartlyboy
Scrap the $3+ trillion unconstitutional portion of the federal gov’t - the greatest threat to our lives, liberties, and free pursuits.

Whatever it takes - DOGE whatever. This MUST be done.

16 posted on 04/08/2025 2:07:44 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Jim W N

Roger that.


17 posted on 04/08/2025 6:51:09 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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