US EditionTrump Calls for $1.5 Trillion Military Budget Despite Audit Failures
Trump claims military rebuild while experts say national security spending exceeds $1.5 trillion, adding $5.8 trillion to debt over 10 years, critics warn.
- Two weeks ago, President Donald Trump announced via Truth Social he would seek a $1.5 trillion military budget, framing it as part of his effort to rebuild the military.
- By counting Department of Veterans Affairs , Department of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence spending, the U.S. national security budget exceeds $1.5 trillion, with analysts like Winslow Wheeler arguing the real total nears $2 trillion.
- CRFB modelling found the ten-year cost estimates would rise to $5.8 trillion with interest, while fact-checkers largely did not contest the $1.5 trillion claim.
- The Pentagon failed an audit and told Congress it would account for all spending by 2028, prompting lawmakers and critics to say accountability is insufficient.
- Framing the proposal, President Donald Trump and allies promised tangible hard power including accelerated shipbuilding, aircraft production, and modernization, while analysts said tariff revenue would not cover the 60% military budget increase.
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While Donald Trump wants to raise American defense spending to an astronomical $1.5 trillion a year while at the same time seeking a docile central bank head, the prospects for German savers are poor.
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Trump calls for $1.5 trillion military budget despite audit failures
(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump wants a much larger military budget despite the Pentagon's continued failure to accurately account for its spending.
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“I rebuilt the military in my first term and continue to do so today. We have a budget of $1.5 trillion,” claimed President Donald Trump in a provocative, meandering, and at times outright baffling speech at the Davos Economic Forum today. While fact-checkers eviscerated scores of Trump’s misleading statements in the speech, this $1.5 trillion military budget claim went largely uncontested. Yet, this would seemingly have been one of the easiest …
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President Trump’s announcement that he wants to push the U.S. defense budget to $1.5 trillion in 2027 is being framed as a necessary response to “very troubled and dangerous times” and a way to build what he calls a “Dream Military.” He claims that tariff revenues generated by his trade policies can help fund the increase and even allow for debt reduction while maintaining economic growth. There is a reason that Washington wants to increase its …
The military budget for 2026 is $901 billion.
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