To pay for his F-upped war, Trump wants cuts in the EPA, Education, Disaster Funding, TSA, Health. Budget lies also needed.
Largest Military Request in Modern History
The Wall Street Journal reports Trump Seeks $1.5 Trillion for Military, the Largest Request in Modern History
President Trump on Friday released a summary of his budget proposal for the 2027 fiscal year, seeking $1.5 trillion in military spending, by far the largest dollar amount in modern history.
The proposal for military spending included $1.1 trillion for the Defense Department for the next fiscal year, as well as another $350 billion for critical munitions, an effort to expand the military industrial base and other matters. Trump promised a $1.5 trillion military request in January, before the U.S. launched large-scale strikes on Iran.
The Pentagon portion of the request includes funding to boost manufacturing of munitions, a priority of Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg. The Pentagon request calls for buying 34 ships, including funding for a new class of battleship named after Trump and new frigates, both announced last year. In all, the administration wants $65.8 billion for shipbuilding. The defense request also includes money to build the Golden Dome missile shield championed by Trump.
Most By Over $500 Billion!
Proposed Cuts
- Nondefense Spending: A 10% reduction of nondefense spending to about $660 billion in fiscal year 2027, followed by additional cuts in subsequent years.
- Federal Emergency Management Agency: The administration wants forcing states and local governments to address their own disasters.
- Cybersecurity including elections: The administration would cut $707 million from DHS’s cybersecurity agency and end its election security work.
- TSA: Re-privatize the Transportation Security Administration by forcing small airports to hire private security contractors.
- Department of Health and Human Services: A reduction of $15.8 billion or 12.5% from the 2026 enacted level.
Budget Lies Make Up the Difference
- In 2026, the budget estimates the U.S. will take in over $406 billion in tariff revenue, more than double the $194 billion that the government received from tariffs in 2025.
- The budget forecasts that annual tariff revenue will reach $500 billion by 2029.
- In 2026, the Yale Budget Lab estimates that Trump’s current tariffs would bring in just over $171 billion—less than half of the Trump administration’s estimate.
- In 2029, Yale estimates tariff revenue would be $193 billion under current policies, a far cry from the half-trillion that Trump’s team expects.
Trump did not include refunds of tariffs ordered by the International Court of Trade.
And he assumes replacement tariffs will make up any deficits. The problem is the replacement tariffs absolutely will not provide Trump’s nonsensical estimates.
And those tariffs are themselves constitutionally questionable.
Additional Budget Cut Details
My synopsis of cuts was highlights only. Here are additional details.
Sen. Patty Murray, (D., Wash.), said military funding comes at the expense of medical research. “Our national defense budget should not be dictated by a president who is sending servicemembers into harm’s way in reckless foreign wars,” she said.
Midterm Campaign
Wow. What continued (but expected) hubris.
Bear in mind the Golden Dome will easily cost 10 if not 50 times whatever down payment Trump requests. Destroyers named after Trump! Sheesh.
While I sympathize with some nondefense cuts, the package as a whole is fiscally insane.
Expect a midterm Republican washout. I will discuss how big in a post coming up soon.
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Iran’s Zarif Wants a Bilateral Reset With U.S. That the Gulf Can’t AcceptFormer FM’s terms for ending the war leave out the states that absorbed the most damage.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/03/iran-zarif-united-states-war-gulf-states-damage/
U.S.-Iran War Is Stranding Sailors In The Strait Of Hormuz
https://www.jalopnik.com/2139587/us-iran-war-stranding-sailors-strait-of-hormuz/
The Leviathan natural gas field ~130km offshore Haifa, Israel has restarted operations as of the 2nd of April.
Chevron owns 39.66%
New/Med energy owns 45.34%
Ratio energy owns 15%
Iran is no longer considered a threat.
I wonder if Israel will use the funds to pay the US back for the war they suckered Trump into? Nope, guess not!
A corrupt, degenerate, insane p.o.s.
The Pentagon has failed eight consecutive audits. They cannot tell their auditors where they money goes. There seems to be no penalty for failing audits, so why should they make a serious effort to pass?
Until they can pass an audit, their budget should not be increased by even one cent.
Hitler’s Personality…. Lacked Empathy: often extreme actions against perceived enemies.
Manipulative: Manipulated public opinion with shrewd complex techniques.
Superficial: gave charismatic speeches while hiding his aggressive goals.
Impulsive : Impulsive decisions, particularly with military strategy.
Often Ignored Norms: blatant disregard for human ethics.
Whom can you think of today who is doing a repeat performance?
All of congressional republicans? All of the senate republicans?
The president and his sycophants?
Should anyone be surprised? Typical Trump in negotiating mode. Ask for something absurd, act like it’s normal, then back off by half. Same ole same ole
It’s not working with Iran. They rejected his absurd 15 point proposal, so he asked for a 48 hour cease fire.
They told him to pound sand. They know his promises mean nothing.
Defense contractors have a long, documented history of billing the Pentagon for overvalued products, often engaging in severe price gouging for spare parts and weapons systems. Reviews have found markup profits as high as 4,436% to 9,380% on some items, such as helicopter and aircraft parts.
EASY – – Markup profits up another 50%.
Thanks, Commander in Chief. Remember? I bought 200 Million $Trump meme.
The Government spends money like it grows on all their Taxpayers Trees? Military Contractors even supplied a toilet seat and only charged — $6 Million Dollars ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4cVaybsz6Q
Ah, the ‘good ‘ol days’. Remember a few decades back when we had powerful and profound Speakers of the House? Like Tip O’Neal and such. Now we have weak childish bumbling Trump serving Keystone Cops:
To wit:
“Last Friday, Speaker Mike Johnson indignantly dismissed a Senate-passed bill deal to reopen the Homeland Security Department without funding for immigration enforcement as a “joke.”
By Wednesday, he was jointly issuing a news release with the Senate leader endorsing it.
But early Thursday morning, he declined to bring it up in the House, punting a chance to try to reopen the department until at least mid-April and avoiding the risk that hard-right Republicans would either block it or threaten to oust him for doing so. Then, he spent much of the afternoon huddled in a heated conference call with his angry G.O.P. colleagues, privately trying to persuade them to eventually embrace the deal, which he had decried as “ridiculousness” just days before.
That, too, apparently failed; there were no plans for the House to quickly reconvene, and by Thursday evening, it was not clear when or even whether Mr. Johnson might bring the bill up.
Mr. Johnson’s contortions on the homeland security measure over the last several days reflect his weak hold on his tiny and fractious majority, a persistent vulnerability that has characterized his tenure in what is supposed to be the most powerful job in Congress.
They were the whipsawing moves of a leader who derives his influence nearly entirely from President Trump and defers to him routinely, and who must live in constant fear of being thrown overboard by restive Republicans who have shown they are more than willing to oust a speaker who compromises with Democrats to get something done.”
Pentagon Pete’s Own Troops Ridicule His Rebrand With Dark New Nickname
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pete-hegseths-own-troops-ridicule-his-rebrand-with-dark-new-nickname/
Good article. McNamera’s highest achievement was the Ford Falcon.
As I have often said, the only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is the way(s) they want to spend us into complete and total bankruptcy. One side typically favors defense spending while the other likes social programs.
Of course in the end (which will come)it is a distinction without a difference.
My suggestion would be to freeze defense at current levels and cut all other budgets by 10%.
No, not a distinction without a difference. Social programs fund much needed help for the desperately poor. It helps families with sick children, provides food to those who would otherwise go without, and all kinds of other wonderful things. Military spending kills people and makes wealthy shareholders in the MIC even wealthier. Fascinated you didn’t know that.
I would cut the military budget by 95%. The USA is protected by the two oceans, and a friendly Mexico and Canada. I would also crush healthcare costs through a massive national purchasing program. After those two cuts, I would raise taxes high enough that we wouldn’t have a budget deficit at all.
More money to buy new weapons? Not needed because China is not going to sell gallium, tungsten and REEs to the US and its allies for military production. So I wonder where these fresh funds will go. To hookers in Dubai taking care of tens of US thousands ground forces? Or to Iran to release US pilots?
I’m from Australia. We’ll sell you gallium and tungsten if you want it.
But King Chaos has the time, & wants the money, to reopen Alcatraz.
‘the notorious prison closed more than 60 years ago due to its crumbling infrastructure and high maintenance costs.”
Shirley, it’ll be cheaper now…
Trump wants $152 million to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz as a secure prison | CNN Politics
When midterms roll around…
it should be remembered:
the Republicans put all their eggs into this one basket case.
My fear when reading this is always the same–that even a portion of the increase gets approved but inevitably the cuts never materialize, the endless (growing) deficit. It’s almost as reliable as Old Faithful–spending increases pass, cuts get pushed out, reduced or axed.
Why would you ever cut spending when you can cut revenues? You make everyone happy! It’s not like anyone is going to hold their politicians accountable.
Sometimes I wonder if there is a hidden hand that dictates all of this. It seems that it is time to have another world war. In preparation, Russia is being forced into China’s corner, so the two sides will be roughly equal. Now the spending on arms is ramping up.
I do realize that a dominant species has to control its own population, since it cannot be controlled by predators. Also, because we are smart enough to have figured hygiene out, micro-organisms can’t do the job of controlling our numbers. So it seems that war is the only option.
Continued explosion of our numbers without the selective pressure imposed by war would probably lead to a drastic decline in average intelligence, I suppose. So maybe it is for the best.
I hope President Trump understands his place in the scheme of things. I hope Bill Gates and Elon Musk are on the job, too.
And what about Obi Wan Kenobi?
Hopefully, one day, you come to understand that human population growth is declining very rapidly even in Africa and S. America. It is in actual decline in most of Europe and Asia.
Thanks for drawing that to my attention, but I think it is only INTELLIGENT humans whose populations are declining. I have been to funerals of people who were retarded, but not bad people (otherwise I wouldn’t have been there), and have been astonished by how many relatives showed up. I think that is the explanation for the continued population growth in Africa. I don’t have any view about Latin America.
Your klan hood is showing.
Excellent! This bodes very well for Huntsville 🚀
Dude, traffic’s already a nightmare and space command hasn’t even arrived yet.
As today. see debt to penny…
2026-04-01 39, 016 trln
2025-04-02, 36,214 trln
usa deficit is $2.8 trln
BREAKING: Another US Jet Lost: A-10 Warthog Attack Plane Crashes Near Strait of Hormuz After Iran F-15 ‘Strike’
Need $500 billion to replace all the planes falling out of the sky
Money printer go…brrrrrrrr
But just think of all the Keynesian stimulus we’re getting from the lost planes! It’s a win!
did you read the post,??
dont worry .. MONEY BE A PLENTY!
Trump should be wing walking on every one of them.
Since DT changed the department of defense to the department of war, I suggest changing the word Defense to the word War in all above instances. I think people would look at it more closely if they knew all these dollars going to war spending.
Taco and his partners in crime should be required to take a basic economics course. Of course, none of them are capable of understanding it.
A virus or an armed robber does not need to understand a balance sheet.
Deficits don’t matter dontcha know, at least according to Cheney type chickenhawks.
Do you think we’re going to try to do something stupid this weekend? or more stupid as the case may be ?
seems like things are lining up, let me put on my tin foil hat and I’ll get back to you, lol.
“Something stupid”. We’re not just trying, we’re doing it. Every .. freaking .. day.
Gonna try and let Jesus out on Sunday.
6 years ago, the land of the free banned people from attending worship services on Easter and arrested a few who did so anyway. Anything is possible these days.
Who was President when that happened?
Yes…and who were the governors…mayors…the cops…the corps… the karens ….
A very lost opportunity to stick it all up their fing @sses
aren’t we still working on getting last year’s budget passed?
how.many lobster tails for Pete will that buy?
This absolute tragedy brought to you by MAGA voters.
Watching that fool Joe Rogan do the surprised Pikachu face now is repulsive.
=This absolute tragedy brought to you by MAGA voters.
SORRY PUMPKIN. it seems you are not USa citizen
USA congress votes for money. president just executes!
we will see HOW TOUGH DEMS ARE!
Completely misplaced priorities.
I can’t believe ADDING $1/2 Trillion in spending to a budget that NEEDED HUGE CUTS ANYWAY!
These Defense Contractors and Military gun-ho nuts are like coke addicts. Just can’t get enough. And can’t get enough of other people’s lives. F’ Trump’s bone spur lies; get his fat ass out there on the lines.
Parallels? I don’t recall the details, but if I recall wasn’t Great Britan’s demise attributed to massive war debts crippling the country early last century??
BTW, Where TF is Musk and DOGE on this? F’, he needs an army of chainsaws for the OLD Defense Budget!
I’m not sure why Americans ever believed putting someone so erratic in charge was a good idea—beyond the fact that their preferred side won. In the long run, though, it’s a loss for everyone.
MAGA voters were already losers. They were just trying to bring the majority winners down to their level of ignorance and misery. And they picked the right man for the job!
Canadian Prepper says this is preperation for military takeover of US government.
Rubio made an asinine comment that if Iran had spent its money on its people and infrastructure instead of missiles and drones, it would have been better off. (Same could be said for the U.S., huh?)
WRONG. If Iran did not have anti-air capability or offensive capability, the U.S. and Israel would have been carpet bombing all of Iran right now with thousands of huge gravity bombs instead of the stand off weapons it is forced to use right now.
The damage to Iran would have been far worse by now if Iran had not made those investments. It’s was their wisest spending ever.
It is the United States that would have been better off without spending $200 billion (or more) on this foolish war of choice and spending it on U.S. infrastructure instead.
downvoted by a MAGA no doubt
I’m a maga voter, i upvoted you. what you said wasn’t wrong. what is wrong in the comment and elsewhere in this section is the notion that preposterous wastes of money and deficits didn’t occur prior and that program x/y/z would have been a better spend. . the entire thing is a trainwreck enabled by printed money
so Maga is a failure then? Nothing has changed at all.
Hillary Clinton still not locked up and supports the Iran War.
Trumps grift is as bad or worse than any of the democrats.
nothing any of them do is determined by the consent of the governed.
time to find a new movement I would think.
The F15 chasing and unsuccessfully downing a drone in Iraq sums up the efforts in this war. The US is always close to its goals and never reaches them despite all of the circus acts attempted.
The goal is to maximize shareholder value in Lockheed-Martin. This war is an amazing success.