{"id":71762,"date":"2026-04-15T06:54:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/tax-day-us-taxpayers-spend-hundreds-more-on-military-as-trump-pushes-for-vast-increase\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T06:54:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:54:52","slug":"tax-day-us-taxpayers-spend-hundreds-more-on-military-as-trump-pushes-for-vast-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/tax-day-us-taxpayers-spend-hundreds-more-on-military-as-trump-pushes-for-vast-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax day: US taxpayers spend hundreds more on military as Trump pushes for vast increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Americans race to file their federal taxes before today\u2019s deadline, new analysis breaks down where the money goes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many US households spent hundreds more tax dollars on the military last year, according to new analysis, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s plans to dramatically increase federal defense spending faces growing scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of Americans will race to file their taxes today, the final day for federal returns, amid<strong> <\/strong>concern over rising living costs and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/fox-news-poll-record-number-say-taxes-too-high-government-spending-seen-wasteful\">government spending<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/15\/us-taxpayers-military-spending-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Americans race to file their federal taxes before today\u2019s deadline, new analysis breaks down where the money goes Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Many US households spent hundreds more tax dollars on the military last year, according to new analysis, as Donald Trump\u2019s plans &#8230; <a title=\"Tax day: US taxpayers spend hundreds more on military as Trump pushes for vast increase\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/tax-day-us-taxpayers-spend-hundreds-more-on-military-as-trump-pushes-for-vast-increase\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tax day: US taxpayers spend hundreds more on military as Trump pushes for vast increase\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}