The Washington Post reports that the Trump administration wants to shrink the budget for the Pentagon by 8% in the next five years. Their source is, as usual for WaP, “officials familiar with the matter.”
According to WaPo, “Hegseth ordered the proposed cuts to be drawn up by Feb. 24, according to the memo, which includes a list of 17 categories that the Trump administration wants exempted. Among them: operations at the southern U.S. border, modernization of nuclear weapons and missile defense, and acquisition of one-way attack drones and other munitions.”
The Defense Budget has ballooned in recent years to $910 billion. To put this into perspective, China has the world’s largest military yet their military budget is only $224 billion. How do they spend only a quarter of what we spend with far more manpower?
Perhaps because they don’t have wasteful contracts where they deflate the value of equipment by many orders of magnitude?
