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Pentagon Secretly Braces for Embarrassing Trump Defeat

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Jonathan Ernst/Reuters Pentagon officials are secretly preparing for Donald Trump’s demand for a record $1.5 trillion defense budget to fail, according to a report. For months, the Trump administration, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has called on Congress to fund a mammoth $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget to pay for military projects such as a “Golden Fleet” battleship or a planned “Golden Dome” missile defense system, as well as replenishing severely depleted stockpiles used in the war in Iran. However, the record-breaking military budget request has struggled to attract the…

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    Jonathan Ernst/Reuters Pentagon officials are secretly preparing for Donald Trump’s demand for a record $1.5 trillion defense budget to fail, according to a report. For months, the Trump administration, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has called on Congress to fund...

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