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Feedback from April 2 and Beyond
Stop Pretending $1.5 trillion. With a “t.” That’s how much U.S. president Donald Trump wants Congress to appropriate for military (falsely called “defense”) spending in 2027. And that number—there’s no other way to put this—is insane. The only proper date for such a spending request, followed by a winking grin emoji, is April 1.
Let’s compare. At the height of the U.S. war in Vietnam, in 1969, the U.S. government spent about $85.5 billion ($761 billion in inflated 2026 dollars) on “defense.” In 1991, when the U.S. deployed hundreds of thousands of troops for Desert Storm, the U.S.
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