Donald Trump Announces $1 TRILLION Military Budget

Donald Trump Announces $1 TRILLION Military Budget

April 9, 2025

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With much of the globe and American public focused exclusively on tariff mania, Donald Trump as well as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth unveiled massive news on Monday, which would have normally made a bigger impact in headlines.

The Pentagon will soon have its first $1 trillion budget. Donald Trump said while hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, "Nobody’s seen anything like it. We have to build out military, and we’re very cost-conscious, but the military is something we have to build, and we have to be strong."

But ironically the announcement comes as the administration has been aggressively seeking to root out government waste and excess spending. The reality is that for decades both sides of the aisle have allowed defense spending to balloon unchecked. That looks to continue, and the big winner remains the military-industrial complex even amid a DOGE crackdown.

Hegseth too made the announcement on X while sharing the video of Donald Trump praising the future one trillion dollar budget. "Thank you Mr. President! COMING SOON: the first TRILLION dollar [Defense Department] budget," the Pentagon chief said.

Even though the Department of Defense (DoD) has never had an official budget which reached that figure, it remains the actual cost of total U.S. military spending has for several years running actually exceeded $1 trillion.

Joe Biden's 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) totaled $895 billion, so a trillion appears the next natural progression, given the out of control nature of defense spending.

Critics of U.S. foreign policy have ripped Donald Trump for the move. For example, independent geopolitical analyst Tim Anderson writes, "Add another trillion to the U.S. debt. None of the budget cuts in Washington have reached the Pentagon, which does precisely nothing to 'defend' the USA. The U.S. military exclusively interferes in other countries."

https://www.zerohedge.com/military/record-breaking-1-trillion-defense-budget-trump-hegseth-say-its-happening

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