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Do you think all the Neocons and Defense Contractors of the M.I.C. are happy about that?
The move comes after intense lobbying from congressional Republicans and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who argued Trump’s announced $700 billion military spending plan for fiscal 2020 was not only contrary to the administration’s national security build-up but potentially dangerous for the nation.
The figure represented a significant drop from the $733 billion mark that Pentagon planners had been anticipating would be unveiled in February, as part of the president’s annual budget submission to Congress. Trump had said the reduced military spending would be paired with a 5 percent cut for all other federal spending programs, to rein in the national deficit.
But Politico reported on Sunday that following a Dec. 4 meeting with Mattis, Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., and House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, Trump committed to a fiscal 2020 defense budget of at least $750 billion, a nearly 5 percent increase instead of a 2 percent cut.
Can you imagine if that sack of crap Obama was forced to put up with half the BS Trump has had to endure?
Here's how he handled it. With a sense of humor. Not crying and stamping his feet and acting like a spoiled child.
originally posted by: pheonix358
a reply to: Sillyolme
Here's how he handled it. With a sense of humor. Not crying and stamping his feet and acting like a spoiled child.
Now now Silly, what you can throw so can everybody else. But President Trump does it much better with lots of truth thrown in.
I never saw that , thanks for posting.
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