The Trump administration is requesting $20 billion more for military programs than for all the other federal programs combined.
, which he submitted to Congress on Monday, is only a hair larger than the current year’s budget, but it is still the largest since World War II , and it’s even more notable for what it emphasizes: building more nuclear weapons, preparing for exotic flavors of warfare, and expanding America’s global military presence.
For better or worse—whether or not Trump likes it or knows it—America’s military reach remains farflung. Trump’s Defense Department has no mandate to economize. In fact, judging from its budget books, the Pentagon’s managers did not eliminate a single weapon system. This degree of permissiveness may be unprecedented. At first glance, it may seem that they did cut $6 billion from programs scattered throughout the new defense budget.
This argument is at the very least exaggerated. Much of the current arsenal has been upgraded and modified time and again, for decades, through “service-life extension programs,” with no degradation.
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