The president\u2019s proposed $445bn increase in military spending would batter popular domestic programs as millions struggle<\/p>\n
With Americans focused on Donald Trump\u2019s deeply unpopular war<\/a> against Iran, far too few Americans are focusing on another disastrous Trump idea: increasing the Pentagon\u2019s budget to a colossal $1.5tn<\/a>. Just as Trump\u2019s Iran war has hurt millions of Americans by sending gas prices skyward, Trump\u2019s supersized Pentagon budget will hurt millions of Americans because Trump, to help finance that budget, is pushing for painful cuts in health, education, and housing programs.<\/p>\n By proposing a record-breaking $445bn increase<\/a> in military spending, Trump is showing he\u2019s gung-ho for guns, but not for butter<\/a>, even though millions of Americans are struggling financially and are eager for more butter \u2013 social spending \u2013 to make their lives easier. Trump\u2019s proposed military budget would mean a spectacular jump \u2013 it would be 42%<\/a> above this year\u2019s budget and two-thirds bigger<\/a> than Joe Biden\u2019s last Pentagon budget. Asserting that human needs are woefully underfunded, a coalition of 289 groups denounced<\/a> Trump\u2019s \u201cgigantic\u201d increase as \u201cgrossly irresponsible\u201d, especially since the US already spends more on its military than the next nine<\/a> biggest defense-spending countries combined.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The president\u2019s proposed $445bn increase in military spending would batter popular domestic programs as millions struggle With Americans focused on Donald Trump\u2019s deeply unpopular war against Iran, far too few Americans are focusing on another disastrous Trump idea: increasing the Pentagon\u2019s budget to a colossal $1.5tn. Just as Trump\u2019s Iran war has hurt millions of … 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-72285","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\/72285","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=72285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}