Trump calls for record $1.5 trillion defense budget, a 50 percent jump

[highplainsdem]

Source: Politico

President Donald Trump on Wednesday declared he would ask Congress for a $1.5 trillion defense budget in 2027, a massive $500 billion increase from this year’s Pentagon budget.

The huge boost likely reflects how expensive some of Trump’s military ambitions are, from the Golden Dome air defense effort to his call for a new battleship design. Neither of those programs could be fully funded under current spending levels.

The president provided few details in his post on Truth Social, other than to say the money would pay for his “Dream Military.” Trump did suggest that tariff revenues could cover the increase, but even if he managed to circumvent Congress’ constitutionally mandated power over spending, existing tariff collections would still be several hundred billion short of what the president plans to ask for.

While finding half-a-trillion dollars in new spending would prove difficult, Trump and some congressional Republicans appeared confident they could do so. The budget reached $1 trillion this year thanks to $150 billion in new money Congress voted to pour into Pentagon coffers via a reconciliation bill, although much of that will be spread out over the next five years on various long-term projects.

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Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/07/trump-calls-record-defense-budget-00715298

[Blasphemer]

1. More debt eh? Collapse imminent. nt

[Permanut]

2. "Defense" budget?

Mkay.

[Doodley]

4. War

[surfered]

3. He's already added $2.2 trillion to the national debt despite the alleged DOGE savings.

And there’s the unknown costs of lawsuits by improperly fired federal workers and torts as result of ICE and the yet to be discovered corruption.

There’s a reason he went bankrupt 6 times.

[Scrivener7]

5. Every Democrat needs to oppose it.

[paleotn]

6. And all those magat deficit hawks are going to say what now?

[James48]

7. of course does

Those Trump battleships aren’t cheap, you know. Going to need a bunch of Trump Battleships to take Greenland.

[Cheezoholic]

8. Didn't he jump defence companies earlier today and now wants to give them half a trillion more?

The new Nazi war machine run by the usual madman.

[Buddyzbuddy]

9. Best way to steal from the Gov't. without question.

Otherwise, you're unpatriotic.
"How dare you question this boondoggle."
What are you, a commie?

[BidenRocks]

10. There is a cheaper alternative...

n/t

[Ol Janx Spirit]

11. He's funding a war to suspend elections indefinitely--in his mind anyway. He cares nothing about...

...the American kids that will die or the trillions of dollars Americans will lose in the process.

That seems to be coming into focus.

He is evil.

[ancianita]

12. Fuck that.

[Skittles]

13. Cadet Bonespurs wants to play world-wide GI Joe with our military

[cstanleytech]

14. He'll then use the excuse that he's the leader of the armed forces and redirect the money however he wants.

Including into his own pocket probably.

[oasis]

15. 100% that!