Military Experts: Trump Defense Spending Plans Would Break the Budget

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Military Experts: Trump Defense Spending Plans Would Break the Budget

BY PAUL MCLEARY - NOVEMBER 17, 2016 - 3:54 PM

Over 18 months of campaign stops, stump speeches, and debates, President-elect Donald Trump rarely detailed his plans for the U.S. military, other than pledging to use it as a blunt object to hammer the Islamic State and other foreign extremist groups that threaten the United States.

But there is much more to his national security vision, and it involves tens of thousands of new troops, dozens of ships and hundreds of warplanes. Defense experts said the plans would cost almost $100 billion more than the Pentagon has currently budgeted for Trump’s first term, an amount that would require Congress to change laws setting budget caps for the Pentagon.

Still unknown, however, is where that money would come from, given Trump’s other plans to slash taxes while keeping many entitlement programs intact and also embarking on a $1 trillion infrastructure improvement program.

“I see big deficits in our future,” said long-time budget analyst Todd Harrison of the Center for Strategic and International Studies...

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http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/11/17/military-experts-trump-defense-spending-plans-would-break-the-budget/

[dhill926]

1. but he and his cronies will profit....

that's all that matters to the assholes....

[LonePirate]

2. Everyone knows budget deficits only matter when a Democrat is President.

[HassleCat]

3. Put it on the Visa card

Just like the Iraq war.