40% is just about right to make us vulnerable to Russia. Anyone not seeing this as an act of aggression against American stability. Pete just charged us for painting his house.$40,000 for his own housing we supplied him with. It didn't look up to his standards. Just like Elon. A conman.
I'm pretty sure they wont come from a renegotiation of the contracts or elimination of defense programs that don't work. I'm sure we could find 8% right there, if not more.
Let review all of the government contracts. Start there and let a group decide if it's necessary expense. OH WAIT, that's democracy... what a concept. Government contracts and millionaires are getting more contracts, which is the problem
Adam....the Pentagon hasn't passed an audit in decades. I personally saw waste 40 Years ago ...I doubt it has stopped. But lumpy dumpy elon is incompetent to do that job and fired those who could.
The thing that gets me: if they would invest the money into paying the debt there might be some element of a point. But tax cuts for the ultra wealthy and more debt - really??? This is driving the train towards the wall very quickly. Do MAGAs hate their kids?
It’s all part of the plan by Musk and tech bros., reduce purchases of traditional weapons and focus on cheaper AI powered drones (the operate through starlink) that are produced by him and his partners. It’s a big grift, that’s what it is.
Hey idiot elected Dems, have you learned nothing from history? The party that shuts down the gov over the budget LOSES THE MIDTERMS! Work with the Repubs to get whatever you can. Also, flapping your lips gets you nothing, the reason Trump is so popular right now is he is physically doing things.
WHY didn't DOGE let all the "killed" departments do what the DOD is doing. WHY???
Turnip just wanted to upset the apple cart... to focus everyone away from his real agenda... being the Putin of America
So much Russian money went into his real estate investments in multiple cities. He was basically a one man money laundering operation for the Russian mob.
Wait. I recognize you’ve served in congress and I haven’t. But… I’ve been hoping for cuts in the Defense budget since… forever. Why is this a bad thing when there is flagrant misspending and the US defense budget is equivalent to the next 5 largest countries budgets combined.
Adam have you thought about doing the daily briefing that Jasmine and others have floated to counter the disinformation put out by MAGA? I think you’d be great. Can’t have any dem milk toast elected folks giving those briefings. They are 2 weeks past due.
When you have 36 trillion in debt and a 2 trillion dollar deficit, this should have started years ago. It pains me to say this, MAGA is using common sense. If they are not spending the savings elsewhere, they are saving the nation.
Trump seems to have changed for the worst. He was flailing and making dozens of stupid comments/lies every day during his first term. He's been emboldened this time by delegating the work to accomplish his evil goals to more accomplished people than his relatives.
What’s being cut? Is it health services or the crappy jets that never worked? Or are they assuming the Iron Dome project will protect the country from nukes. I need to see the details.
Not to support Hegseth, but giving experienced leadership input on how to make cuts is actually the way cuts should be done, unlike giving clueless DOGE authority to delete randomly.
You haven't changed, but you should. You should re-evaluate your conservative priors after seeing where Reaganism has led. Tax cut absolutism led to the U.S. oligarchy. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" mockery led to Trump's unitary executive. Fed Soc led to the corrupt SCOTUS.
America is less safe, has less credibility in the world stage, has lost respect and admiration, and is about to impose real economic suffering on millions of citizens. When this horror comes knocking at our doors we have feckless Republicans to blame. They have agency - use it to remove him.
I think defense is a great place to cut, as long as it’s done judiciously.which isn’t what this regime is doing.but it could likely get cut by a full third, with care. Maybe even half.stopping private contracts alone when the govt could do it cheaper & just as well would be great
Adam, you are on the right side. You are the studious one. And just because 49.8 percent of the total votes went to Trump doesn’t mean he is right and we are wrong.
Just go on to call of duty war zone and search for who the top players are and let them run the military... duh, y'all know that's what Elon wants to do
I am all for cutting the military's budget, and I hope it is done in a surgical, meticulous manner, and not the "ready, fire, aim" approach Musk has been taking, That said, we're going to need all hands on deck when trump gets the U.S.into WWIII with Europe - and Putin cuts and runs
Cutting the inflated Pentagon budget is the least offensive thing this administration has done. Or, rather, it would be if not for the fact that our national security has suddenly become extremely vulnerable.
I miss the good old days when Republicans stood up to Russia, fought to increase defense spending, and advocated for the separation of powers and local control. You know, when it was a principled political party and not a cult.
Well, did they say the whole time that Biden destroyed our defense, so they are proposing on spending less. Without any type of comprehensive review of the defense posture and recommendations for improvements. Would appear to be an unserious approach that is typical of this administration.
Cutting the defense budget would drastically cut the revenue source and profits of the Military-Industrial Complex. Does anyone seriously think the oligarchs are going to allow that? This "plan" is merely a distraction.
At least DoD gets to make cuts themselves instead of Big Balls and the Boys deciding. Also, you know there just going to cut parts of the budget that support families and make military life better. Why not close bases, the military wants to but Congress never lets them.
They’re going to cut suicide helplines, mental health services for servicemembers/families, health care for them/families, sexual assault response prgms, housing standards enforcement, safety prgms, environmental health/occupational health surveillance, & disability documentation prgms
Reads to me like 34%+ cut in year 5 of this plan if cutting 8% each year, unless he meant 8% cut each year compared to current spending. Either way, not anything seriously considered by any conservative I’ve ever known, but GOP will be sure to change their beliefs to fit Trump’s proclamation.
If that entire 8% went to Medicare for all and/or Medical research, I would want to be very much in favor of this...caveat being I am pretty ignorant of the Defense budget, so I would need to listen to what this would mean for national and international security. But for tax cuts for the rich, NO!
Adam – can’t somebody speak with Bush, Obama and Clinton to get them all to speak up “together on stage” for the 🇺🇸 American people!! This orange idiot who thinks he’s a king needs to be stopped immediately.
As a lifelong liberal, I won’t complain about cutting the defense budget, as long as it’s done intelligently and strategically. Let’s just say that the events of the past month have not inspired confidence in that being the case.
To think it was Fox News who very recently bragged about higher enlistment numbers. Fox News will also be cheerleading the junior enlisted being forcibly downsized into the unemployment line.
That's a bad thing? I'm not sure if it would bring us down to only spending 50 times what everyone else spends, damn near combined.
It's gonna be really embarrassing when our new 'enemy' Canada flies a 50$ Target drone into all our multi billion dollar plans, kinda like what's happening to Russia.
I heard a story on @npr last week about how our military doesn’t have enough people enlisting and the ones who want to are often not eligible due to weight or basic reading and math requirements. That our ships, aircraft are not where they need to be numbers wise.
Weakening our military deliberately to help the coup they've launched. America was warned every day...why did the #Cult45 followers not listen or believe him? Project2025 is a fascist manifesto. We're all to suffer their ignorant choice.
If they were smart, they would get rid of him. They would band together. Nobody has more might than our military. They just need a true leader to follow, helping to save democracy
I honestly have no problem with this. The defense department has been bloated for DECADES. An 8% cut each year for a few years will make the DoD look at spending like the rest of us do instead of the cash cow it has become.
Actions speak louder than words. Almost all of Trump's words before the election have been "Trumped" by his actions. In many cases his actions have been the opposite of his promises. Lowering the price of eggs and gasoline for example. Promising that he was not going to implement Project 2025. Lies!
Not to worry you, dear Americans, but maybe the week you just turned entire continent of former allies into bitter enemies isn't optimal time to slash defence budget & put what's left of your army under command of Team Acne, the Ketamine-addled chap, the alcoholic & a dementia patient? Just sayin.
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Still waaaaaay too high. They should be cutting 10-20%. If Musk wants to find $100s of billions, he's not going to find it in cutting payroll.
It's for the untaxed.
I get it.
God help us all.
What a shame.
bizarro world makes more sense
Republicans have sold out our democracy, our constitutional rule of law.
The divorce attorneys are good though as long as they still set up just outside the gate.
War is coming to America.
Turnip just wanted to upset the apple cart... to focus everyone away from his real agenda... being the Putin of America
It appears that Trump is taking orders from Putin to destroy America.
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Trump is a 78 year old man with the early stages of dementia,
that is being used by political complicit others.
Donald Trump could never think up what he doing
to deconstruct the federal government etc..
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by Pete Hegseth
They never spend less.
He won't be around that long.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-year_plans_of_the_Soviet_Union#:~:text=The%20initial%20five%2Dyear%20plans%20aimed%20to%20achieve,placed%20a%20major%20focus%20on%20heavy%20industry.
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President musk will decide the percentage
8%
Ummmm I predict it’s much more
Than than 8% Petey
you just don’t know it
You like VP trump are on a need to know basis from prez musk
Way to go.
Wow, self-hate is a terrible thing.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/elon-musk-trump-iron-dome-space-x-payday-spacex-missle-defense/
Sure Russia, take the world.
I can't wait to see this play out.
Except for, let me guess..."space force"?
Right?
It's gonna be really embarrassing when our new 'enemy' Canada flies a 50$ Target drone into all our multi billion dollar plans, kinda like what's happening to Russia.
Go ahead. Do it. The M.I.C. will make his death look like a drunken accident
He should go back to the other job he was bad at and leave the military alone.
Yikes
Might be tough with Trump about to get us into WW3.
be nice, our military budget disproportionately insane
Where are they gunna get that money from ?
Sure: the king of lies
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/newman-trumps-budget-sophistry-172551455.html
No fucking sympathy for the majority of vets that voted for this.