US President Donald Trump on Monday announced that his administration approved a record defense budget of close to $1 trillion despite an ongoing campaign to cut federal spending.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth went further in an X post on that evening, saying Trump “is rebuilding our military − and FAST”.
“COMING SOON: the first TRILLION dollar @DeptofDefense budget”, Hegseth posted from his personal account. “(PS: we intend to spend every taxpayer dollar wisely − on lethality and readiness)”.
The number would be a significant increase from the $892 billion funding Congress allocated for national defense programs this year, which includes the Pentagon, nuclear weapons development and security programs at other agencies.
And this comes as the armed services seek to trim 8 percent of their individual budgets and reinvest the money in modernization efforts. Moreover, Hegseth is already planning to slash tens of thousands of department civilian employees across the globe as the Pentagon begin work on what is expected to include consolidation of domestic and overseas bases.
Trump did not specify if the $1 trillion would be solely for the Pentagon or the overall national defense budget. But national defense spending was already projected to exceed $900 billion in the upcoming budget.
Despite DOGE, it's still spend, spend, spend!
On Wednesday, I was at Menara Affin @ TRX for the Affin Toastmasters meeting. And I was tasked to evaluate Ajitha Ratnam who delivered her Project 3 Level 2 speech from the Presentation Mastery pathway.
Photos taken at the said meeting:
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