Pentagon: Trumps Afghan Troop Boost To Cost $1B More Yearly, $12.5B Total

[riversedge]

Source: TPM


By RICHARD LARDNER Published October 3, 2017 3:13 pm


WASHINGTON (AP) —

During wide-ranging hearings on Capitol Hill, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis also said that the United States should remain in the nuclear deal negotiated during the Obama administration that constrains Iran’s ability to build a nuclear arsenal. Trump has trashed the international accord, a cornerstone of Barack Obama’s presidency, as the worst agreement ever negotiated by the United States and signaled he may abandon the agreement.

The release of the Afghan war cost information came as Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., assailed Mattis and Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for withholding from Congress key details about Trump’s new strategy for winning in Afghanistan that was announced six weeks ago.

McCain, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, declared that it was “bizarre” that Mattis and Dunford did not submit written testimony before the hearing started. That’s customary practice for administration witnesses testifying before congressional committees.

“We want to be your partners,” McCain said. “But this committee will not be a rubber stamp for any policy or president. We must be well-informed. We must be convinced of the merits of the administration’s actions. And unfortunately, we still have far more questions than answers about this new strategy.”.......................

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pentagon-trump-afghan-troops-cost?utm_content=buffer76fce&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

---

The total is ANNUALLY.
McCain has a valid point.


Talking Points Memo‏Verified account @TPM 4h4 hours ago

Pentagon: Trump’s Afghan troop boost to cost $1 billion more yearly, $12.5 billion total http://bit.ly/2xWS3nz
6 replies 27 retweets 10 likes

Lunar Sea‏ @lunar_sea
Replying to @TPM

I wonder where he's getting the money. Putin is laughing. Knows russia went near bankrupt there. #NotMyDime
5:52 PM - 3 Oct 2017
0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes

Link to tweet

[True Dough]

1. How can that possibly be affordable

when hurricane-stricken Puerto Rico has "thrown the budget out of whack?"

[BigmanPigman]

2. True. They always have the money for more violence.

However when it comes to innocent victims of health issues and major catastrophes there is never any money available. The GOP is as deranged as the LV shooter. They are sick, greedy monsters!

[SergeStorms]

5. The Pentagon....

loses more than that in their couch cushions each year. Seriously. They couldn't balance their books if they had a division of accountants. They throw money around like they have a blank check every year. Oh..........they DO have a blank check every year, don't they. Never mind.

[Achilleaze]

3. Waist deep in the big muddy, and the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

...says throw some more of your tax money into the stinking hellhole pit because it's profitable for arms manufacturers, and some more of YOUR kids.

[SergeStorms]

6. Jobs, jobs, jobs.

More soldiers, more bullets, more bombs, more caskets, more morticians.......I think you get the picture. Our draft-dodger-in-chief has no problem sending other people's children to die on foreign soil, and Exxon-Mobil thanks Americans for sacrificing their children so petroleum-based products can continue to thrive.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Wow, add in another tax cut for the wealthy and I think the budget might be

out of whack.

[Just Yakov]

7. Divert all the money paying to the defense to the hurricane relief funds, now.

The Pentagon can hold a bake sale to raise their funds, so they can afford to buy whatever they fucking what without having to spend 65% of our budget on useless wars.

[turbinetree]

8. And while in the house theres a "guy" from Oregon, who has found a way to fund the BS, in Afgan.....

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141880894