The US media said on Wednesday that the Trump administration has ordered senior US military leaders to plan an extension cut, which can reduce the defense budget by eight percent annually or some within a few $ 290 billion within the next five years.
The Washington Post, citing a memo, said that the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asked the Pentagon to develop deep cuts.
The Pentagon budget for 2025 is some $ 850 billion. Political spectrum MPs agree to prevent threats largely, especially from China and Russia.
The deduction, if fully applied, will reduce that figure to tens of billions each year, to a few $ 560 billion by the end of five years.
The report did not provide the details that the world’s largest army would be cut, but the report of an earlier post stated that junior civil workers, uniformed personnel were being targeted, not being targeted.
News – Joe visited Pentagon last week after Elon Musk’s Government Efficiency Department – there was a possibility of strict resistance from both military and Congress.
Trump on Wednesday indicated support for a House of Representative bill of the House of Representatives, which would increase $ 100 billion in the defense budget-a step on obstacles with a thehegaseth-directed deduction.
Planned deductions also run counters for NATO members to call by Trump and Hegseth to increase their military expenses up to five percent of the GDP in a year.
– ‘Revise warrior ethos’ –
The United States currently spends about 3.4 percent of its GDP on defense, and the five percent limit on reducing the Pentagon budget will also be out of access.
Stock prices of major US defense contractors collided with this news, Lockheed Martin was briefly dropped before he recovered, Northrop Gruman fell nearly two percent and Palatir closed over 10 percent.
The memorandum by Hegseth stated that the proposed cuts should be prepared by 24 February, and included 17 categories, exempted by Trump, which includes operations along the US border with Mexico and modernization of nuclear weapons and missile defense.
It also asks for funding for regional headquarters such as Indo-Pacific command and space command.
But other major centers such as the European command, which led the American strategy throughout the war in Ukraine, and the Africa command and the Central Command – that oversee the operations in the Middle East – was absent from the list, the post reported. ,
On Tuesday, Hegseth dated, according to the date, it is written in the memo, “The Defense Department should do immediate work to revive the warrior Lotho, rebuild and restore our army.”
He allegedly continued, “Our budget will process us the fighting force, which we need, to prevent unnecessary defense spending, reject excessive bureaucracy, and to run actionable reforms including progress on audit,” he reportedly Continued on.
US President Donald Trump has vowed to reduce the government’s expenses and end American support for Ukraine in his war against the Russian invasion.
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