Pentagon's $1.5 trillion budget

POGO - Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth returned to Congress this week and immediately faced a bipartisan barrage of pointed questions about the Pentagon’s funding request and the illegal war in Iran. At center stage was the Pentagon’s proposed $1.5 trillion budget — a record-breaking sum that, if approved, not only promises to become a boondoggle of wasteful spending that doesn’t make us safer, but also punts critical expenditures to a broken reconciliation process, a particular point of contention for some Republican lawmakers. Hegseth failed to provide the details that would justify such a massive budget increase for the world’s most heavily funded military.  

 

“One would think that such a massive bump in spending would be accompanied by a detailed plan on exactly what this money would be used for, and a robust debate on how it will achieve our national priorities,” wrote Greg Williams, the director of POGO’s Center for Defense Information, for Federal News Network.