“As Scott Horton says: No matter who you vote for, you always get John McCain.”

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-Kyle Anzalone

Republicans in Congress have unveiled plans to hand the White House $1 trillion – that’s 12 zeroes, $1,000,000,000,000 – to spend on the military.

That’s right, despite promised cuts the federal budget and Elon Musk’s lagging “DOGE” initiative – which promised to slash $2 trillion before settling on a far less ambitious $150 billion – Trump is doing the same old thing: pumping vast sums of American tax dollars into the Washington swamp.

Antiwar.com’s Dave DeCamp elaborates on how your money will be wasted:

“House Republicans unveiled a bill this week that would bring the 2025 US military budget to over $1 trillion.

The 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) totaled about $885 billion, and the new supplemental bill drafted by the House and Senate’s armed services committees would add $150 billion, bringing the 2025 military budget to a record-breaking $1.035 trillion.

The bill includes $25 billion for President Trump’s vision to create a new missile defense system for the United States, which he has called the ‘Iron Dome for America’ or the ‘Golden Dome.’ The project would be a boondoggle for US weapons makers and would likely kick off a new global arms race.

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