Trump's $1.5T defense budget is in trouble

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

House Republicans’ latest plans to pay for the Iran war could kill President Donald Trump’s dreams of a $1.5 trillion defense budget.

Party leaders are racing to pass a $60 billion bill to fill a hole in the Pentagon’s balance sheet left by the war in the Middle East, which has drained crucial stockpiles of missile interceptors and other munitions. To get that measure through Congress, Republicans plan to use the reconciliation process, allowing them to circumvent Democratic resistance in the Senate.

Administration officials have urged lawmakers to enact a smaller measure to address those immediate wartime needs. But that’s a problem for Trump’s eye-popping overall defense budget goal, because the president had hoped that Congress would pass $350 billion of the total $1.5 trillion blueprint using that same reconciliation process.

“Defense spending is hugely important to me and the country, but I just don't think the votes are there to do another reconciliation bill,” said Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), who sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense panel. “We’ve got to focus on what can be done.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-1-5t-defense-budget-is-in-trouble/ar-AA285dUa

[walkingman]

1. More money is just incentive for more wars....no thanks. If we would stop

bullying the rest of the world we wouldn't have to spend our tax money on this so-called "defense". It looks more like offense to me. No one except the lowest element in our society are interested in playing like the tough guy.

Grow the fuck up!

[durablend]

2. We're broke

Live within your means, Republicans.