US President Donald Trump said his administration will approve the record defense budget of one trillion dollars. “We also approved the budget in the amount of about trillion dollars,” Trump said after a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (quote for Breaking Defense). According to Trump, this budget will become “the largest, ever allocated army.” “No one has seen anything like it. We must build our army, and we are very saving, but the army is what we must build. And we must be strong, because now there are many bad strengths around, ”he said. The defense minister Pete Hegset after meeting Trump with Netanyahu wrote in his account on the social network X:“ Thank you, Mr. President! Soon: the first trillion dollars of the defense budget. President Trump restores our armed forces – and quickly. ”The tram does not specify whether the trillion dollars is allocated exclusively to the Pentagon or as the general budget of national defense, which includes other agencies. However, this figure, as Politico notes, will significantly exceed funding in the amount of $ 892 billion allocated by Congress for national defense programs this year, including the Pentagon. In February, The Washington Post wrote that the head of the US Ministry of Defense Pit Hegset ordered the highest leadership of the Pentagon and the American army to develop plans to reduce the defense of the defense The budget is 8% annually over the next five years. At the end of March, The Washington Post found out that the hegset sent a document inside the Pentagon, which establishes the priorities of the military department – a temporary strategic nation -defense guide. It followed that China was considered the main threat, and the deterrence of Russia was proposed to be left mainly by European allies. (Tagstotranslate) News
