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Why Trump’s huge $1.5T defense budget is worth every penny

If he has to choose between guns and butter, President Donald Trump has made it clear he wants the guns.

This is the right choice for our national security, and reflects, as well, a correct assessment of what should be the federal government’s priority — not funding social services, but providing for the common defense. 

Trump’s new budget proposes $1.5 trillion in defense spending in fiscal year 2027, a staggering 40% increase over 2026. 

At the same time, it outlines a 10% cut in so-called domestic discretionary programs (a category that excludes entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security). 

Progressives consider this tantamount to a crime against humanity. 

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called the budget “rotten to the core.”

Sen. Patty Murray of Washington said its vision is “bleak and unacceptable.”

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Her colleague from Oregon, Jeff Merkley, deemed the document “an out-of-touch plea for more money for guns and bombs, and less for the things people need.”

Well, people do need a........

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