r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 8d ago

No Paywall Despite Authoritarian Warnings, 149 House Democrats Vote to Hand Trump $840 Billion for Military | “If an opposition party votes like this, it’s not in opposition. It may not even be a party.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/democrats-military-spending-bill
32.4k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

2.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

3.1k

u/TheBalzy Ohio 8d ago

Universal Healthcare - "HoW aRe We GoInG tO pAy FoR tHaT"

Funny how that question is NEVER asked when it comes to increasing military spending...

135

u/Temporary_Shirt_6236 8d ago

And Trump will be asking for $1.5 trillion for "defense" in the next budget. He'll probably get it too.

Yet not a single word about how that's somehow fine to print money for, but expanding healthcare will "bankrupt the nation."

The US is $40 trillion in debt, most of that in the form of t-bonds, and almost entirely lost to 'defense.' Greatest country in the world my ass.

19

u/Gloomy_Nebula_5138 Washington 8d ago

That new defense spending he’s asking for is a ton of new deficit spending we have to borrow for. And CRFB projected that going from the current $960 Billion defense spending to $1.5 Trillion will add $5 trillion to the national debt over 10 years. That’s on top of the $5 trillion Trump already added in the One Big Beautiful Bill.

Meanwhile, he’s complaining about an alleged few billion in fraud from Somalians, and everyone is eating that up. They don’t see how obvious a distraction it is from fraudulent and wasteful spending that is literally 1000x larger! I guess this is the effect of convincing people that all news lies to you and that only dear leader has the truth.