Turmp budget proposal pairs cuts to some agencies with increased defense spending

Trump Has Ordered Safeguards Stripped From Procurement As Pentagon Prepares To Spend $1 Trillion

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Turmp budget proposal pairs cuts to some agencies with increased defense spending

Trump's budget proposal for next year includes cuts to some federal agencies paired with an increase in defense spending. What's not included is evidence of the billions DOGE has claimed to save.

Guess who’s set to gain billions in company defense contracts with Trump’s Pentagon budget proposal

The Intercept reports Donald Trump’s Pentagon budget proposal will almost certainly lavish Special Government Employee and Trump Senior Advisor Elon Musk and his company SpaceX with new expensive projects.“No matter how you slice it, the Pentagon budget is obscenely high at a time when the fundamentals of our diplomatic infrastructure are being decimated, the social safety net is being shredded, and medical and scientific research are under atta…

Elon Musk Set to Win Big With Trump’s Trillion-Dollar Pentagon Budget

The White House unveiled a barebones budget blueprint last week that would pump more of the federal budget into the Pentagon while taking a chainsaw to education, foreign aid, health care and public assistance programs. While some analysts claim that the outline, also known as a “skinny budget,” represents a modest cut to Pentagon spending, that fails to take into account the White House’s call for $119 billion in defense spending to be included…

Elon Musk set to win big with Trump’s trillion-dollar Pentagon budget - Taxpayers for Common Sense

SpaceX has proposed providing its Golden Dome technology to the Defense Department through a “subscription service,” according to reporting by Reuters. Pentagon officials and experts have expressed concerns about this unusual model for a critical defense program, which runs the risk of leading to cost overruns and a lack of oversight and control over the program. “With his subscription model plan, Musk is looking to both retain control of these …