Pentagon officials are reportedly struggling to devise a plan to spend the extra $500 billion that Donald Trump wants to give the bloated, fraud-ridden agency in the next fiscal year, vindicating criticism of the funding proposal as immensely wasteful.

The Washington Post reported over the weekend that “White House aides and defense officials have run into logistical challenges surrounding where to put the money, because the amount is so large.”

The extra $500 billion, endorsed by the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, would push annual US military spending to a staggering $1.5 trillion after the Trump administration and congressional Republicans enacted unprecedented cuts to federal nutrition assistance and Medicaid last summer.

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    The GDP is 29 to 31 trillion 2024-2025.

    1.5 trillion to fuck up most of the planet including ourselves and reduce the GDP to say 25 billion… Priceless! Well 31-25…6billion.

    Health spending in the US is 4.9trillion -5.3 trillion~$14,570.00 per person on the lower end. This is 7% higher than in 2022.

    Yeah that’s numbers and they say that this government doesn’t care about our well being. They have an idiot leading us. “They” referring to the actual electors, who we are not. We don’t vote for the sonobabich who’s wasting our money and time trying to cover-up his sexual predation crimes.