According to the Washington Post, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has signed a memo, ordering senior leaders at the Pentagon and across the U.S. Military to develop plans to cut roughly 40% of the defense budget by 2030, in increments of 8% per year for the next five… pic.twitter.com/DrRUEjHWxE
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) February 19, 2025
Military cuts?
8% every year for five years?
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered senior military and Defense Department officials to draw up plans to cut 8 percent from the defense budget over each of the next five years, officials said on Wednesday.
Mr. Hegseth said in a memo issued on Tuesday that a number of branches within the military and the Pentagon should turn in budget-cutting proposals by next Monday, two officials said. The memo listed some 17 exceptions to the proposed cuts, including military operations at the southern border.
One senior official said the cuts appeared likely to be part of an effort to focus Pentagon money on programs that the Trump administration favors, instead of actually cutting the Defense Department’s $850 billion annual budget. …”
Someone pinch me … am I dreaming?
“Someone pinch me … am I dreaming?”
You’re even more correct than you imagined.
I just saw Trump as a blocker to woke lunacy, nothing more.
DOD is far too bloated with graft, favoritism and sinecures, but sadly most of the cuts will go to the lower ranks, it always does.
“Someone pinch me … am I dreaming?”
Brad, I hear ya! Trump just continues to exceed expectations! Go Trump!
“Military cuts?
8% every year for five years?”
This is literally retarded. There is not 40% of waste in the DoD. Everyone talks about coffee pots that cost x amount of crazy dollars. Try making coffee at 35,000,000 feet, going at Mach 1.1, for about five hours and then diving to the deck and following mountain peaks at submach speed. Its not a normal coffee pot.
There are changes we can do with military procurement. There is fraud, waste, and abuse. There is more unaccountable spending. But, the biggest changes can be made in how we do the research, development, acquisition, procurement, and manufacturing. Its in rebuilding our industrial base and restoring our small-medium enterprises, its in breaking up the huge defense manufacturer conglomerates.
But cutting 40% of the military budget by 2030 while trying to face down the China threat is retarded. Taking American forces from overseas is beyond stupid. American military forces in the Persian Gulf have reduced oil prices by 50%. Without them there you would be paying more at the pump than the money you pay in taxes to fund the operations. Pulling American troops out of Afghanistan increased, immigration and refugees, increased terror cells in the West, and initiated the collapse of 7 American embassies overseas, the creation of a large anti-American power bloc unseen since 1975, and launch of two larger wars in Israel and Ukraine.
Meanwhile, we are facing the most epic enemy in American history, a country that outnumberes White Americans by 7-1, can outbuold us 5-1, can make 2 aircraft carriers to our 1, and just put a AI surveillance device on Hunter’s phone and know has his Personal Identity Information (social security number, DOB, Address, Spouse, children etc) every article he has ever written, much of his recent communication, his email and all his servers, etc. With such threats reducing the military is not going to happen. If it does, it means we’ve become nothing but a satrapy of New York City Financiers like the UK is of City of London.
“Someone pinch me … am I dreaming?”
Someone slap Hunter and wake him up.
It’s because the Jews want us to all die for Israel with only BB guns and paper airplanes.
OK, maybe I was being too pessimistic in my comment on the post about abolishing the IRS. The biggest parts of the budget are social security, medicare/medicaid and the military. The military reduction is a good start.
Yup, you’re dreaming:
“The offsets are targeted at 8% of the Biden Administration’s FY26 budget, totaling around $50 billion, which will then be spent on programs aligned with President Trump’s priorities“. https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4071371/statement-by-performing-the-duties-of-deputy-secretary-of-defense-robert-g-sale/
The good news is that the taxpayer won’t be funding solar powered tanks & pronoun training. The not so good news is that the money will be used to
fill the coffers of the MICpay for the Iron Dome for America boondoggle.Good. Needs to be cut in half.