{"id":10068,"date":"2025-04-08T10:02:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T07:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=10068"},"modified":"2025-04-08T10:02:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T07:02:02","slug":"trump-touts-record-1-trillion-pentagon-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=10068","title":{"rendered":"Trump touts record $1 trillion Pentagon budget"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are \u201ca lot of bad forces\u201d threatening the US, the president has claimed<\/strong><\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump has announced that his administration has approved a record defense budget of around $1 trillion despite an ongoing campaign to cut federal spending.<\/p>\n

Trump made the remarks during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday.
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\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<\/em> Trump said. \u201cNobody\u2019s seen anything like it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stressed that \u201cwe intend to spend every taxpayer dollar wisely \u2013 on lethality and readiness.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The defense secretary under the previous administration of President Joe Biden, Lloyd Austin, had proposed increasing the defense budget by roughly $50 billion more than projections for the fiscal year 2026.<\/p>\n

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In contrast to both Trump and Austin, in February the Pentagon proposed cutting spending by 8% but prioritizing expenditure on technologies such as drones, submarines, and defense operations at the US-Mexico border and operations related to deterring China.<\/p>\n

The current US Defense Department budget is $895.2 billion. Despite the vast sums allocated to defense, the Pentagon has failed to pass an audit for seven consecutive years since the procedure was established.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s pledge for expanded military funding comes as his administration, through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has implemented widespread federal spending cuts. Under DOGE, led by Elon Musk, roughly 280,000 federal workers have been laid off in recent months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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