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minus-squarePizzaMan@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoDon’t worry, republican congressmen will champion the effort to raise the Pentagon’s budget sooner or later.
minus-squarespacecowboy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·1 year agoSave this post and come back to it when it becomes fact. Because we all know it will.
minus-squarePizzaMan@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down3·1 year agoWhy would I need to save it when there is already pre-existing history? This year: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-31/us-defense-hawks-push-for-more-military-spending-despite-bloat https://www.defensenews.com/congress/budget/2023/03/10/gop-blasts-inadequate-biden-defense-budget-as-it-vows-spending-cuts/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep27719 2016: https://www.republicanviews.org/republican-views-on-defense-spending/ https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/06/politics/donald-trump-defense-spending-sequester/index.html https://archive.thinkprogress.org/the-republicans-military-budget-could-make-every-homeless-person-in-america-a-millionaire-1c5f2c2b4c1b/ 2006: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2006/03/17/congress-raises-ceiling-for-borrowing-span-classbankhead100-billion-is-spent-without-offsetting-cutsspan/18d86b47-47e1-4509-83ab-fd95faaff601/ Pick any year within the last two decades and you can pretty easily find an article about republicans pushing for or having a high military budget. That trend is not changing any time soon.
minus-squarespacecowboy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down3·1 year agoI was referring to the next instance. I get your point.
minus-squarePizzaMan@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·1 year agoI know, I was just trying to hammer home my point. Sorry if it came across as aggressive.
Don’t worry, republican congressmen will champion the effort to raise the Pentagon’s budget sooner or later.
Save this post and come back to it when it becomes fact. Because we all know it will.
Why would I need to save it when there is already pre-existing history?
This year:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-31/us-defense-hawks-push-for-more-military-spending-despite-bloat
https://www.defensenews.com/congress/budget/2023/03/10/gop-blasts-inadequate-biden-defense-budget-as-it-vows-spending-cuts/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep27719
2016:
https://www.republicanviews.org/republican-views-on-defense-spending/
https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/06/politics/donald-trump-defense-spending-sequester/index.html
https://archive.thinkprogress.org/the-republicans-military-budget-could-make-every-homeless-person-in-america-a-millionaire-1c5f2c2b4c1b/
2006:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2006/03/17/congress-raises-ceiling-for-borrowing-span-classbankhead100-billion-is-spent-without-offsetting-cutsspan/18d86b47-47e1-4509-83ab-fd95faaff601/
Pick any year within the last two decades and you can pretty easily find an article about republicans pushing for or having a high military budget. That trend is not changing any time soon.
I was referring to the next instance. I get your point.
I know, I was just trying to hammer home my point. Sorry if it came across as aggressive.