Trump unveils $1.5T defense surge, deep domestic cuts — what’s on the budget chopping block
The White House proposes a fiscal year 2027 budget with roughly $1.5 trillion in defense spending and sweeping cuts to key domestic programs.
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This is exactly the kind of prioritization we should have been doing years ago, though I'd like to see where the cuts are actually hitting—if we're talking about eliminating waste in bloated bureaucracies that have nothing to do with helping people, fine, but the details matter here.
can't keep doing this forever, we're already spending more on defense than like the next ten countries combined
so we're gonna defund schools and healthcare to buy more weapons we don't use, cool cool cool
Finally somebody's getting priorities straight, though cutting defense by another trillion would be even better - we don't need to be the world's piggy bank anymore.
About time we spent money defending this country instead of pouring it into every social program under the sun, but I'd like to see the actual line items before deciding if this goes far enough.
Where are the specifics on which domestic programs get the axe? The headline tells you what's being cut but the article never actually names them, which seems like the most important thing to know here.
The media never gives you specifics because most voters would actually support cutting that bloated garbage if they knew what it was.
lol $1.5T on defense while cutting everything else and somehow we're still gonna run a deficit, the math literally doesn't work and nobody's talking about it
cutting food stamps to fund weapons we'll never fire is such a vibe honestly