Pentagon officials are reportedly struggling to devise a plan to spend the extra $500 billion that Donald Trump wants to give the bloated, fraud-ridden agency in the next fiscal year, vindicating criticism of the funding proposal as immensely wasteful.
The Washington Post reported over the weekend that “White House aides and defense officials have run into logistical challenges surrounding where to put the money, because the amount is so large.”
The extra $500 billion, endorsed by the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, would push annual US military spending to a staggering $1.5 trillion after the Trump administration and congressional Republicans enacted unprecedented cuts to federal nutrition assistance and Medicaid last summer.
That is America’s biggest problem right now. Forget affordability, forget inflation. It’s the sartorial problem to beat all problems: the pockets of American politicians are not deep and strong enough for all the money they have to line them with. Just think of all the poor sweatshops in Vietnam that have to re-cut, re-fit, and re-sew all the pockets.