Pentagon Wants More: The $1.5 Trillion Question
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Supa sias Pentagon. Supa dupa. Let’s start with the the supplemental. The supplemental. Okay, well, budget this year, trillion bucks. No big whoop. No big whoop. But it’s not enough. Not enough because we went to war. You would think that, you know, maybe they would put money aside to budget if you had to go to war in the same way that, gee.
You and I we put money aside in case I don’t know the get a roof leak or the air conditioner goes. No, no, we gotta spend every dime and then if there’s a war, supplemental package. And if you don’t go for it, you’re anti American. you don’t support the troops. They love that line. You don’t support the troops. Support the troops, you don’t support the troops, you more money. Anyway, yeah, eighty seven point six billion.
Dollars in supplemental appropriations. That’s your money. That’s your money. and it’s not just for that. We’re gonna go through this here. We got department of law. 67.146 billion, 21 billion for munitions to rebuild stockpiles.
funding for operations and readiness, $2.4 billion for drones, $5.1 billion for cybersecurity and autonomy, fuel costs, $12.1 billion for shhsified programs. And this supplemental wall pack for some reason, farmers are getting paid again.
11.1 billion dollars to farmers. Yeah, how’s that tariff thing working out for you guys? Yeah, obviously not good. So we got to take money and we gotta pay off farmers again. And here we go. 1.4 billion for the Ebola outbreak response focused on detection, contact tracing, surveillance, humanitarian assistance in
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Congo, Uganda, and Kenya. You know what? I gotta congratulate the people of Congo, Uganda, and Kenya who are gonna be getting this money. and also their Swiss bankers. Again, do you people understand how much $1.4 billion really is? And you know, that money can go far in in some of these third world places.
So yes, yes, congratulations to the various different government officials that are gonna get their hands on our tax dollars and of course their Swiss bankers. and then we got infrastructure and other five hundred million for restoration and capital projects in Washington, DC.
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one billion towards modernizing Penn Station in New York City and some other Department of Energy items there.
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Okay, that’s one. That’s the supplemental. Pete Hegseth right now is making the rounds. Making the rounds. He’s got to make nicey nice. Has to make nicey nice because again, you know how contentious he tends to get in these committee hearings. He wants he wants one point five trillion dollars for next year’s defense budget.
Again. I yeah, if they came out and and told me that, gee whiz, we need this money because there’s an asteroid hurling towards Earth, like in the movie Armageddon. Remember that with Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck, and they had to take out the sent the space shuttle up, they had to nuke the asteroid, or I I I don’t know. I don’t know, is it an Independence Day type of a thing or Mars attacks?
Cha something.
But what do we need one point five trillion dollars for? We’re forty trillion dollars and then stop, you know, all of you you you you hawks out there, shut the flip up.
I mean it shouldn’t even be freaking close.
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It shouldn’t. And I’m sorry, the truth hurts, but yeah, our military’s like the New York Mets for crying out loud. We outspend everybody except the Dodgers. you know, to take the Dodgers out of it. And what what do we got?
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What do we got? We we got a Pentagon that can’t even pass an audit. yeah, I just put my foot down with this stuff. I I I don’t care. I don’t care. I don’t want to hear the argument, but the socialists are gonna win. I will not vote for anybody, any member Congress that votes for $1.5 trillion. Okay. you you get the Pentagon to get its books in order, you pass a budget, you stop spending money on nonsensical programs.
And then maybe we’ll talk. Okay? But what stop? No, China’s not gonna freaking invade. Okay? Like I said, sell me on Mars attacks. Sell me on something else. But this is completely unnecessary. Ridiculous, quite frankly. Watchdog on Wall Street.com.
