Thread by @natpriorities

President Trump finally released his 3rd budget request today, after a month's delay due to the government shutdown. And it’s a doozy.

FY 2020's #TrumpBudget goes even further than last year in bloating the already huge military budget to $750 billion.
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The FY 2020 #TrumpBudget's proposed $750 billion for military spending is a 5% increase, or $34 billion, from 2019's enacted budget.

That would put 57% of the $1.3 trillion discretionary budget into the Pentagon & nuclear weapons. nationalpriorities.org/blog/2019/03/1…

Compared to the #TrumpBudget's $750 billion for military spending, total funding for all other agencies, from the Department of Education to Veterans Affairs and NASA, is only $543 billion, down from $597 billion budgeted in 2019 — a 9% decrease.

The #TrumpBudget pretends to be fiscally responsible, but it relies to an unprecedented degree on one of the 21st century's biggest budget gimmicks, a Pentagon slush fund known as the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO)—doubling funds to $165 billion from $81 billion last year.

The OCO account was first created to pay for wars in 2001, but has become a genie in a bottle for fulfilling any Pentagon wish that doesn’t fit in the regular budget, even while administrations claim to keep Pentagon spending under control. #TrumpBudget ntu.org/publications/d…

An additional $9 billion in the $750 billion military budget is listed under “emergency requirements.”

What's that about? Probably funds to build the border wall that President Trump is showing no signs of dropping as a political football. #TrumpBudget
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The #TrumpBudget is full of incredibly out-of-touch militaristic items flagged for national security funding boosts—like the “United States Space Force (USSF)” proposed as a 6th branch of the Armed Forces.

Forget what humans actually need here on Earth!
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