On the Donald J Trump ‘Truth Social’ site, this past week the US President announced he would be calling for a vastly expanded military budget. He explained that he wants to build a ‘Dream Military’ … Here at Strategic Demands we say ‘no’ to trillions more for a newly declared “War Department”
Jan. 8 (UPI) — President Donald Trump said he would ask Congress to approve a massive $500 billion increase in defense spending to fund his “Dream Military,” taking the Pentagon’s 2027 budget to a record $1.5 trillion.
In a post on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday, Trump said “these very troubled and dangerous times” required the 50% hike for the good of the United States and that he had reached his determination after protracted, thorny debate with his cabinet and lawmakers.
“This will allow us to build the ‘Dream Military’ that we have long been entitled to and, more importantly, that will keep us SAFE and SECURE, regardless of foe. If it weren’t for the tremendous numbers being produced by tariffs from other countries, many of which, in the past, have ‘ripped off’ the United States at levels never seen before, I would stay at the $1 trillion dollar number,” he wrote.
The extra funding would pay for new hardware headed by his “Golden Dome” air defense scheme and a new class of guided-missile battleship…
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StratDem: The nation’s most pressing security demands do not call for hundreds of billions more spent on an ongoing military bonanza — with hundreds of billions less proposed for spending on priorities at home.
We will be brief and to the point here:
It is time to rethink, debate and agree on national security strategies. First, the nation needs a road, and a consensus, a majority, an agreement that brings the nation together.
By law, the US Constitution and our legal statutory framework authorized the US Congress as holding the power of taxing and spending.
Congress determines government appropriations.The president makes his executive budget requests.
It’s a process. The president ‘asks’ and proposes budgets for department and agenciesĀ as a starting point in an annual process. After Congressional hearings, and negotiations between Congressional representatives and the executive department, Congress votes and sets the spending….
And then… comes the ultimate power broker — the people.
This year the midterm Congressional elections are coming up in November.
It is a midterm vote, half of the current president’s term will be coming up for a public vote, a democratic republic vote (with all the attendant politics and decisions).
It will be time for a public reckoning…
At Strategic Demands/StratDem, we recommend that our readers closely, very closely consider where the nation is going.
The nation’s 2026 strategic ‘roadmap’ is now being pursued and is being planned for 2027 and the years following.
The plan that is now being put in place can be seen for what it is.
The plans being prepared to roll out later this year, and the next, and compounded annually, have lasting historic and profound consequences…
Now is the time for citizen engagement across the country with an understanding of how connected the US is and how connected today’s world is becoming.
It is an interconnected world — we need to recognize this reality and plan accordingly.
As Strategic Demands logo declares — “Security is Indivisible”
