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Should the government increase or decrease military spending?

The U.S. military budge pays the salaries, training, and health care of uniformed and civilian personnel, maintains arms, equipment and facilities, funds operations, and develops and buys new items. The 2023 U.S. military budget is $773 billion, an increase of 4% over 2022’s budget. The budget includes $177.5 billion for the Army, $194 billion for the Air Force and Space Force and $230.8 billion for the Navy and Marine Corps. Other country’s 2021 military budgets were China $293 billion, United Kingdom $68.4 billion and Russia $66 billion.

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Increase, but only after our deficit is drastically reduced

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 @93GXLNM from Virginia  answered…3yrs3Y

Streamline current spending and get rid of wasteful spending and only add funds accordingly

 @93BQNDS from Massachusetts  answered…3yrs3Y

Streamline current spending

 @94977RP from Maryland  answered…3yrs3Y

Streamline current spending and only add funds accordingly.

 @93SGY5Y from Washington D.C.  answered…3yrs3Y

Streamline current spending and get rid of wasteful spending

 @8CGQ8R5 from Pennsylvania  answered…5yrs5Y

Only increase during wartime and conflicts.

 @9D6PYY3 from Kansas  answered…2yrs2Y

The government should audit military spending to minimize wasteful spending. After that is done then modifications to the budget can be made.

 @8DPG3BX from North Carolina  answered…5yrs5Y

Keep the budget the same just reduce wasteful spending

 @8HPMZ5V from Florida  answered…4yrs4Y

Decrease, our current military spending is extremely high and we could always cut back marginally, and also put a large sum of money back towards other areas that need funding such as healthcare and education.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…1mo1MO

Trump’s Spending Cuts Hits GOP Wall

House Republicans faced a tight vote on a budget resolution to support Trump’s tax cuts, border security, and spending cuts, with a slim 218-215 majority allowing only one GOP defection.At least four Republicans—Warren Davidson, Victoria Spartz, Thomas Massie, and Tim Burchett—opposed the plan as of Tuesday morning, citing concerns over deficits and spending cuts.The budget proposes $4 trillion to $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion in spending reductions over a decade, with over half targeting the Energy and Commerce Committee overseeing Medicaid.House Speaker Mike Johnson pushed for a Tuesday evening vote, though the schedule remained uncertain, relying on Trump’s influence to unify the fractious GOP coalition of deficit hawks and moderates.Massie solidified his “no” vote after a GOP meeting, worried about ballooning deficits despite leaders’ claims that economic growth would offset the gap.The resolution is a procedural step for a “one big, beautiful bill” (Trump’s phrase) via budget reconciliation, extending 2017 tax cuts and adding $300 billion for border and military spending.Moderate Republicans like Nicole Malliotakis and Juan Ciscomani raised alarms about potential Medicaid cuts, though leaders emphasized targeting waste, not direct reductions.Senate Republicans favored a narrower, two-bill approach but were open to the House’s plan if it passed, with Lindsey Graham noting likely Senate revisions for larger tax cuts.The budget’s $4.5 trillion tax-cut ceiling may fall short of GOP goals like permanent tax cuts and new tax breaks, risking conservative pushback if spending cuts shrink.Jodey Arrington, House Budget Committee chair, worked to sway dissenters, while a looming March 14 government funding deadline added pressure to the fiscal debate.

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Zelensky Firing Of Top General Is Politically Risky

@NiftyThrush1Y

He was a theater actor.. His credentials.

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@ArtisticYak1Y

Zelensky is lapping up the world’s attention and money. He will never allow anything close to peace talks with Putin while all this money is rolling in to his pockets. This is going to stop only when and if the Ukrainian people realize he is gaming them and run him out.

Americans who supported this war (and attacked anyone who did not) will never admit they were fooled (yet again) so cling to their beliefs despite much evidence to the contrary.

Like a religious belief, they found a new Messiah, ie Zelensky, so they attack "unbelievers" on his behalf...and without a military draft, it's extremely enjoyable for them to have yet-another Forever War

@NiftyThrush1Y

This guy is as corrupt as Putin. They deserve each other minus the billions of US debt dollars spent on this nonsense.

 
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U.S. Military Panics As China And Russia Launch Hypersonic Missiles

@C0nsensu5Paisley1Y

China is very weak.

We'll cut off all of their energy imports, and their exports, with our navy, not to mention help from the second most lethal navy in the world (the Japanese).

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@LobbyCicada1Y

Optimistic view with our aging fleet and out of date weapons... How many Fifth Generation Fighters do we have? Which is what our 1990's Buffalo's (F18) will be going up against.... Optimistic view indeed....

@C0nsensu5Paisley1Y

We have about 165 F-22's and over 500 F-35's. Every year more F-35's are delivered with a total force of over 2300 by 2044. Then add in allies and we've got a ton.

 
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U.S. Military Panics As China And Russia Launch Hypersonic Missiles

 @9CJ6CB61Y

Increases dramatically, no one wins an arms race, they just have to keep going, and eventually that creates severe problems for the weaker of the powers, leading to a massive amount of strength for the stronger one, and an overall less stable earth.

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@BoastfulFederalist1Y

The military industrial complex in DC survives on constant Arms races.

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 @9CJ6CB61Y

And that’s one of my many problems with it. Even china has one, it’s become exactly the same thing it tried to escape, but so much worse than usual so then I feel almost morally obligated to side with America regardless. Right now my priority is making sure no nuclear warhead is ever blown up on people ever again.

 
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U.S. Military Panics As China And Russia Launch Hypersonic Missiles

 @9CJ6CB61Y

My family is literally military, that’s really not what the funding is going to, it’s a very small portion. It’s noticeable in the military (the programs not the money loss) but most don’t really care or just get triggered (the triggered ones are conservatives like 90% of the time).

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@CharismaticTaxation1Y

What do the conservatives get triggered about?

 @9CJ6CB61Y

The usual “woke” stuff, anti-racist programs, “inclusion in the workplace” presentations, pride month celebrations, the usual gist.

 
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U.S. Military Panics As China And Russia Launch Hypersonic Missiles

 @Patriot-#17761Y

It's not that we're "triggered" by that so much that a deep and insatiable lust for justice and a burning, hellish anger at the destruction of our country and the indoctrination and enslavement of our children consumes every fibre of our souls and fills us with resolution and determination to do everything in our power to put to a permanent end these nefarious evils.

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 @9CJ6CB61Y

Normally we call in depth emotional explanations of a minor social issue in the reverse of a more severe one “being triggered”. Especially whenever this is a massive overreaction to the issue, and I’ve literally been informed and surrounded by military personnel who don’t care or see a problem in the slightest.

 @Patriot-#17761Y

Pardon me for being angry at the indoctrination and sexualization of my children, and for the industrialised butchery of one million innocent children annually, and for the infringement of my Second Amendment rights, the last safeguard against tyranny the people have, and for the castration and mutilation of unstable children to support their unnatural delusions which were planted in their heads by evil indoctrinators.

 
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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…8mos8MO

Biden retaliated against a Dem who called for him to step aside

Rep. Hillary Scholten, a first-term Democrat who flipped a traditionally Republican seat in 2022, was booted last week from from a coordinated effort between the the Biden campaign and the state party to elect candidates up and down the ticket, according to four people with knowledge of the situation, who were granted anonymity to speak candidly about private discussions.It happened soon after she called for Biden to step aside, those people said, which angered many Democrats behind the scenes. The Biden campaign was contacted by POLITICO Wednesday evening; Scholten was reinstated Thursday morning.“Rep. Scholten is welcome at the coordinated campaign and we look forward to campaigning with her this fall,” said Mia Ehrenberg, a spokesperson for the Biden campaign, when asked about Scholten’s removal from the coordinated campaign.The initial decision to remove Scholten from the joint effort — which would have essentially cut her off from the combined field effort between the presidential, Senate and House races — came from the Michigan state party, according to two people familiar with the discussions. If she had remained excluded from the coordinated effort, it could’ve meant that when Democratic organizers were campaigning in her district, they would tout Biden and the party’s Senate nominee — but not Scholten.The Michigan Democratic Party declined to comment. But two people familiar with discussions said Scholten had specifically infuriated state leaders when she spoke out against Biden — on the same day that the president was already visiting Michigan — without informing them of her plans, according to the two people.“This decision was made in Wilmington, full stop,” a Democratic operative who’s worked on competitive House races said. “Punishing her isn’t just petty and vindictive, it’s self-defeating.”An official for the Biden campaign denied that: “This did not come from Wilmington.”

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