1. We've been told there's a federal budget crisis that necessitates gutting the social safety net and slashing funding for medical research and national parks
Meanwhile, Trump's budget includes a record $1 TRILLION in military spending
Who benefits?
Military contractors like @elonmusk
Let's dig in
2. Trump is proposing a $1.01 trillion military budget — $119 billion more than this year — alongside a $259 billion cut to non-military spending.
3. With his $1 trillion Pentagon budget request, Trump is proposing that the US spend as much on its military next year as it did annually from 1942–45.
Effectively, Trump is asking Congress for a World War III-sized military budget even though troop deployments are at a historic low.
1. Trump says imposing tariffs on nearly every nation on earth is essential to force companies to make investments in the US instead of abroad
But since January, the Trump Organization has announced new multi-billion $ development deals in the UAE, Qatar, India, and Vietnam
And NONE in the US
2. In Qatar, the Trump Organization is partnering directly with the government. This violates Trump's own, extremely weak, ethics agreement he released before returning to the White House.
1. Next school year, thousands of high school students in Oklahoma will be required to learn about Trump's debunked claims that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud.
The lesson will not be part of a course on conspiracy theories, but an official component of the new social studies curriculum.
2. The new curriculum requires students to "analyze contemporary turning points of 21st-century American society. One task: "Identify discrepancies in 2020 elections results by looking at graphs and other information."
1. There has been a lot of attention, rightly, on the Trump administration disappearing immigrants to El Salvador
But something that has gotten much less attention is the Trump administration WRONGFULLY DETAINING US CITIZENS they "suspect" are undocumented immigrants.
2. 19-year-old Jose Hermosillo, a US citizen, was visiting Tucson when he passed by the Border Patrol headquarters, and "an agent arrested him for illegally entering the country."
3. Hermosillo told immigration officials that he was a U.S. citizen, but they did not believe him.
Court documents obtained by Danyelle Khmara of AZPM say that Hermosillo was detained "at or near Nogales, Arizona" and that he "admitted" he was not a citizen.
(Nogales is more than an hour from Tucson. Hermosillo says he has never been to Nogales.)