Thursday, February 16, 2017

When It Comes To The U.S. Defense Budget, The Defense Hawks Will Always Defeat The Fiscal Hawks

The U.S. Capitol Building is lit at sunset in Washington, U.S., December 20, 2016. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

Austin Wright and Jeremy Herb, Politico: Trump's military build-up to spark GOP civil war

The president will make some strange alliances as he seeks a Pentagon budget boost.

President Donald Trump is about to blow up the uneasy détente between GOP defense and fiscal hawks.

The Pentagon is set to seek tens of billions of dollars from Congress to implement Trump’s vow to rebuild the military — “to load it up” with “beautiful new equipment,” as he said at the U.S. Central Command in Florida last week. And Republicans are already drawing battle lines over whether the extra defense dollars should be added to the deficit or, as many in the party have long insisted, be matched with equal cuts elsewhere.

It’s a fight that will test Trump’s skills as a dealmaker and have long-term implications for the GOP, according to interviews with more than a dozen lawmakers.

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WNU editor: Sadly .... defense hawks will always beat the fiscal hawks when it comes to defense spending and budgets.

3 comments:

Jay Farquharson said...

LMAO,

https://wonkette.com/607247/mike-pence-pretty-mad-at-hillary-clinton-for-only-having-126th-trumps-proposed-national-debt


http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/08/13/the-zombie-eyed-granny-starver/

http://crookedtimber.org/2012/08/11/the-grandfather-clause-repost/

There are no "fiscal hawks" in the US,

https://newrepublic.com/article/133431/donald-trump-right-deficits-dont-matter

There's just a group of zombie ryed granny starvers who realize that if they take an F-35 hostage, they can trade it to the Defence Hawks for the right to kill Grannies and "steal" from the poor.

https://www.google.ca/amp/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/trump-moves-to-kill-off-obamas-landmark-retirement-rule-1486116007?client=safari




"Sebastian" said...

In the end there will be no money to fight over. The debt is still rising...

Chase jones said...

Yep a debt in what fake printed money they dont care because the control the reality of the money its self. Kinda like starting a business running up the debt incorporate then file bankruptcy its all a game and they make they rules lol