{"id":306556,"date":"2025-04-10T05:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T05:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=306556"},"modified":"2025-04-12T05:47:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T05:47:52","slug":"trump-pitches-1-trillion-defense-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=306556","title":{"rendered":"Trump pitches $1 trillion defense budget"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colton Jones \u2013 defence-blog April 8, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

President Donald Trump said his administration is preparing to approve a defense budget \u201cin the vicinity\u201d of $1 trillion, calling it the largest in U.S. history and necessary to ensure military strength amid rising global threats.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very cost conscious but the military is something that we have to build and we have to be strong because you have a lot of bad forces out there now,\u201d Trump said Monday during a meeting at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. \u201cIt will be the biggest one we\u2019ve ever done for the military,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

While the administration has not yet submitted a formal budget request for fiscal year 2026, the president\u2019s remarks confirm the White House is moving ahead with plans for a sharp increase in defense spending, despite the current stopgap funding measure in place. A full budget proposal is expected later this spring.<\/p>\n

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth echoed Trump\u2019s message in a post on X, writing: \u201cCOMING SOON: the first TRILLION dollar @DeptofDefense budget,\u201d he wrote. \u201cPresident @realDonaldTrump is rebuilding our military \u2014 and FAST. (PS: we intend to spend every taxpayer dollar wisely \u2014 on lethality and readiness).\u201d<\/p>\n

Neither the Pentagon nor the White House responded to additional requests for comment.<\/p>\n

Analysts say the budget rollout could come in stages, possibly beginning with a \u201cskinny\u201d budget that includes only topline figures.<\/p>\n

The move comes as the Department of Defense is conducting an internal review aimed at reducing approximately $50 billion in annual spending through fiscal year 2026 and beyond. According to multiple reports, the review would shift resources away from legacy programs toward newer priorities, including space, cyber operations, and force readiness.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon is also currently planning to cut between 5% and 8% of its civilian workforce, further indicating a broader shift in defense planning under the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

If you would like to show your support for what we are doing, here’s where to do it.<\/a><\/p>\n

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If war with Iran does indeed ensue then the U.S. military will need that extra money. Has the increase in defence spending been proposed with this in view? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":119956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Inside_the_White_House_and_Washingtons_Beltway"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306557,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306556\/revisions\/306557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}