(Remember when Trump said he was going to cut the bloated Pentagon budget? He said it. Now he proudly goes back on that promise, proving once again... he is the swamp. Of course, we learned that the last time he was in office but right before his 'victory' in Nov 2024, all the pundits said he turned on his people because he didn't know how D.C. worked and they took advantage of that. This time, they said, he's ready for em. And yes he was. Ready to sell us out immediately, even FASTER than last time.)
(BTW... another 'hero' Rand Paul says he loves the DOGE cuts, he loves the tax breaks for billionaires and Big Business but thinks the cuts to you poor working class people don't go far enough.)
from Common Dreams
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday bragged to West Point's graduating class that he has refused to cut Pentagon spending and touted his push for an annual military budget of $1 trillion, arguing that other programs should be on the chopping block instead.
"Some people say, 'Could you cut it back?' I said, 'I'm not cutting 10 cents,'" the president said of Pentagon spending during his bizarre, campaign-style commencement address at the U.S. Military Academy.
"We can cut plenty of other things," Trump added, without specifying what he sees as better targets for cuts than the Pentagon, a sprawling morass of waste and abuse that recently failed its seventh consecutive audit...
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