Amid the War Department leadership’s emphasis on speed, efficiency, and the warrior ethos and White House Office of Management and Budget‘s creative financing to claim a $1 trillion defense budget in 2026, the true cost of our security remains unclear.
If the defense budget was actually $1 trillion as touted, and if all those resources were going toward its core function, deterring and, if necessary, fighting and winning America’s wars, that would be an accomplishment worthy of recognition and pride. Such fiscal commitment would acknowledge providing for the common defense as the only constitutionally directed, mandatory, and exclusive job of the federal government. It would also set spending on a trajectory toward sufficiency in a world where the threats facing the United States are greater than
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