$1 Trillion in Military Spending Is Obscene

We will get poorer, but the Pentagon will want for nothing.

The president boasted about the military budget approaching $1 trillion:

“We also essentially approved a budget, which is in the [vicinity], you’ll like to hear this, of a trillion dollars,” Trump said while meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “$1 trillion, and nobody’s seen anything like it. We have to build our military, and we’re very cost conscious, but the military is something that we have to build, and we have to be strong, because you got a lot of bad forces out there now.

“So we’re going to be approving a budget, and I’m proud to say, actually, the biggest one we’ve ever done for the military.”

Spending $1 trillion each year on the military is obscene. It is even more so when we remember how this administration has gutted spending on humanitarian aid and disease prevention. Trump will shower wealthy military contractors with more of our money by pursuing his absurd “Golden Dome” missile defense system at the same time that he wrecks the economy with his pointless trade war. We will get poorer, but the Pentagon will want for nothing.