Trump’s Trillion-Dollar Boast In a move that makes George W. Bush’s Iraq-era war spending look thrifty, Donald Trump just unveiled plans for a staggering $1 trillion defense budget in 2026. Yes, you read that right—one trillion dollars. Trump called it the “biggest one we’ve ever done for the military,” gloating during a press conference with Israeli President Netanyahu like a Wall Street banker hyped on weapons contracts. This military budget increase would mark the largest single-year spike in war spending since 2004, when we were waist-deep in the disastrous invasion of Iraq. And here’s the kicker: not a word about the deficit he promised to reduce. The Death of the Deficit Lie Remember those grand Trump-era promises to cut the…
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