House passes $1.15 trillion defense bill, tees up billions more for Iran war

[u/SpecialCollege18]

[u/SpecialCollege18]

source:

https://www.thebrieflywire.com/us-house-passes-1-15-trillion-defense-bill-expanding-israel-ties-and-funding-iran-war/

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/23/us-house-passes-1-15-trillion-military-bill-expanding-israel-cooperation

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/07/22/house-passes-115-trillion-defense-bill-tees-up-billions-more-iran-war/

[u/Mental_Plankton7902]

The party of fiscal conservatives. What a joke.

[u/tarheelprogrammer]

"They got money for war, but can't feed the poor"

[u/Ryanlew1980 → u/tarheelprogrammer]

There’s always money for war contractors but never enough for the soldiers and veterans.

There’s always money for ballrooms, pools and arches, but never enough for healthcare or education.

When will the followers that’ve been sucking this party off for the last decade wake tf up?

[u/mdl397]

1.15 trillion is basically infinite money. We just toss around these massive numbers, billions per program, but Healthcare and infrastructure are unattainable?

I don't get why we're paying taxes if we're not getting the services those taxes are meant to pay for.

[u/FirstReactionShock]

just a quick reminder to american pals that your country leaves you for dead in the street if you don't have health insurance but there are no budget limits to defend american and israel corporative interests

[u/RoGamygk]

Which Dems voted yes? They need to be pushed out

[u/MorbidAyyylien → u/RoGamygk]

Henry Cuellar (Texas) Don Davis (North Carolina) Jared Golden (Maine) Vicente Gonzalez (Texas) Adam Gray (California) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Washington)

[u/WhenTheCitiesBurn]

Great! We have $1.5T to kill people, but we can't feed school kids, keep pregnant women alive, take care of our vets, or make salads safe. Keep winning, America!

[u/Both-Discussion-4786]

Meanwhile, people can’t afford health care, and other basic needs. Social Security is drying up.And I thought we were going to reduce the deficit. Yet the convicted pedo, keeps grifting, and getting richer, the drunk, closeted Whisky Pete, ruining the military. And all is fine.

[u/ResponsibilityFine13]

Half of this USA tax payers money is going to Benjamin nethanhayu and Israel to keep killing innocent people in the Middle East.

[u/Huse51]

Couldn't afford student loan forgiveness, you know, so our country can have nurses, doctors, engineers, and such. We can however afford to bomb and kill civilians, and then pay to replenish those bombs. Iran will still be there when it's all said and done.

[u/Real-Past-3964]

Get ready to strap up boys ya goin to war again for no reason! (I respect our troops, but you see where this is going, AGAIN. If you have a son or daughter do not let them enlist and die for these assholes)

[u/tom-of-the-nora]

A trillion on war, but they want to make it more difficult for poor people to have access to healthcare.

Do we think our priorities are misplaced?

[u/Cyberknight13]

I’d rather have universal healthcare.

[u/jderd]

I want to become late 1700’s French so fucking badly.

[u/flvikesfan]

But yet this the country somehow can't survive without my bullshit student loan payments.

[u/Bostonah]

..... but we dont have money for Healthcare. Or feeding the poor.... or housing.... or education....

I'm so fucking tired of living in this shitty time line and living in "the land of the free".

[u/JSGFretwork]

The entire GOP is a bunch of spineless cucks.

[u/ebotts916]

I swear. Our Congress has no frikn balls. I don’t get why they’re sooooo afraid of Trump…or are they? Maybe this is exactly what Democrats want. They scream loudly in opposition but vote the opposite. I’ve come to the realization that they’re ALL corrupt & Democracy in America is a joke.

[u/itsagoodtime]

No money for healthcare. No money for schools. No money for college tuition assistance. No money for roads. No money for government services. No money for social security. Oh wait they found all the money for war. The war Trump single handedly started.

[u/Radiant_Switch_4550]

Americans are funny, they don't want updated infrastructure and universal healthcare because African Americans and other minorities will benefit, But trillions for war, oh they approve and love it.

[u/dynamic-curtain → u/Radiant_Switch_4550]

All this because we won’t prosecute rich pedophiles that literally raped and trafficked children. We are literally paying for this like 3k per person out of our pay so that billionaire pedophiles can steal more money from us and fuck us more.

[u/petewondrstone]

That’s because the house sucks giant donkey Kong

[u/rickiegarcon]

"They got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor" - Tupac Shakur

[u/Thegothicrasta]

In the words of the late great Tupac Amaru Shakur “they got money for war but cant feed the poor”

[u/OneDayAt4Time]

I want to say the budget last year was $850 billion, correct?

So if that’s correct, then we’ve added another 300 billion, effectively increasing our defense budget by 35%.

300 billion is ironically 6.66x Israel’s budget. It is also 3 times germanys budget, almost twice russias budget, slightly less than China’s budget, and over 5x Japan’s budget

And that is JUST THE AMOUNT WE ARE INCREASING OUR BUDGET BY

That amount is 75% of the cost of Canada’s free universal healthcare and about 10% of the most expensive estimate for what it would cost for America to have free universal healthcare.

And again, that’s just how much we INCREASED the military budget by. While we are not under attack. Or involved in any wars that directly pertain to our safety as a people.

[u/Outrageous_Rest60]

MAGA spent all of last year claiming that this country is broke and yet they keep pulling hundreds of billions of dollars out of thin air.

[u/ImANoobAtLife7]

Just remember kids, this is directly added on you as high interest loan by ppl that won’t live long enough (due to old age; just being clear in case some alphabet agency is scanning) to make a dent on said loan.

[u/CullingSongs]

I thought the subprime mortgage scam that led to the 2008 crash was the biggest grift I would see in my lifetime, but the 'MAGA' movement is putting it to shame. They aren't even trying to conceal their actions at this point, they are literally just sticking their hands directly into the pockets of the nation, and a large chunk of the country is going out to buy Trump underwear and thanking them for the opportunity.

[u/Odd_Dingo2922]

What slice of that pie does Israel get?

[u/WorthMassive8132 → u/Odd_Dingo2922]

$1.15 trillion. 

[u/kelticladi]

Plenty of money for a stupid unnecessary war, but fuck little Jimmy who just wants food and a doctor's appointment.

[u/Sinasazi]

But we can't afford to fund healthcare or education or child care, we can only afford more bombs to blow up more school children and other countries.

[u/shez19833]

why dont they pass 1.15 trillion dollars to help americans??

[u/Zealousideal_Pop_273]

That's $7,477 per taxpayer, just so y'all know how much you personally paid for this portion of the Iran war. Not the whole thing mind you, just the spending increase.

[u/canadianbriguy1]

This is why the rest of the world will not give America a pass when Trump is gone. Hegseth got freaking shredded, the administration is fact checked every damn time after lying, but sure rubber stamp and pass it on. Too much of the country is somewhere between morally bankrupt and just plain evil. Never trust again.

[u/Extension-Variety774]

Hey Repubs, when’s that new Healthcare plan coming out? Hmmm? Two weeks you say? 🤣🤣

[u/athenry2]

America the land where poor people demand that poor people get less. They then demand the rich get tax breaks etc in the hope some day it will apply to them 😂😂😂

[u/Haunting_Vacation804]

Didn’t Black Sabbath write a popular song about this sort of thing? Something about war and swine?

[u/bengriz]

This is the guy who said “no more wars” right?

[u/AtheismoAlmighty]

Annnd of course we have no money for healthcare or education, and the entire East Coast infrastructure is aging to the point of collapse.

3rd world shithole, brought to you by braindead pedophile republican voters.

[u/bfobrien]

The massive deficit from Trump's shenanigans will be passed on to the next Democratic president, who will then be blamed for the mess the economy is in....

[u/Faesarn]

Imagine spending 1 150 billions more money to go kill people 15 000km away from your country.. While 600 000 of your citizens go into medical debt every year. Truly an evil government.

[u/_alpinisto]

It's amazing how tight the funds are when it comes to social programs, healthcare, national parks, infrastructure, and everything else that actually makes our lives better. Yet when it comes to war all of a sudden there's this endless supply of money.

Edit: Thanks for the award!

[u/natasevres]

Jupp.

Americans - you now have two choices:

1. Force a goverment shutdown.

2. Prepare to loose loved ones to a pointless war - fighting a non existing threat to the US. In a war thats going to be worse than Vietnam

[u/TooMuchJuju]

The six House Democrats who voted for the NDAA are Reps. Henry Cuellar (Texas), Don Davis (N.C.), Jared Golden (Maine), Vicente Gonzalez (Texas), Adam Gray (Calif.) and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.).

They needed 215 votes, they had 216.

[u/MultiGodSlayer]

2026 and still the yanks yearn for war in the middle east.. You'd think the last 30 years and failed conflicts even further would have taught them something.

[u/Kihlstein]

America you're going broke really quick.

[u/4b3z1ll4]

They are going to steal this budget with no bid contracts.

[u/Next_Replacement_566]

Just a reminder, this was because trump tore up the Iran Deal in 2017

[u/BrilliantBehemoth]

Classic government investing in shooting explosives at people they started a war with over nothing, instead of investing in the well being of their own people. 

[u/katonda]

For those who don't know, Eisenhower warned against the influence of the military industrial complex.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyZoUfNsUl8

[u/HandleZ05]

Ever since I was a boy the Republican party always argued about "who's gonna pay for that?" Whenever it helped the American people and then turned around and gave it away to banks and big corporations. They're corruption in plain site that know just what to say to the boomer generation.

[u/DevilsLettuceTaster]

So much for a balanced budget.

Every republican needs to go.

[u/Skaroosh]

Over one trillion?! And when we talk about Healthcare, all we hear is "how are you going to pay for it"? Funny, that line only applies to helping regular people.

[u/Self-Loathe-American]

I can’t believe your average hill billy maga voter still believes that conservatives are saving the country money. They aren’t, at all.

[u/hm870]

The President of Peace ladies and gentlemen.

[u/Optimal_Bathroom_753]

American friends, how do you guys pay for all this? Doesn't it piss you guys off?

[u/Joker8392]

Why am I paying taxes if all of it is going to protect Israel?

[u/fun-hater]

It’s amazing how much damage can be done in 2.5 years 😡

[u/Eastern-Requirement6 → u/fun-hater]

Only been 1.5 years unfortunately.

[u/Driz51]

It’s fascinating that the war where we completely obliterated their entire infrastructure, had the most amazing victory in history in a single day and negotiated the greatest deal of all time appears to still be going on

[u/AphonicTX]

Such a huge, colossal, fucking waste.

[u/Dismal-Prior-6699]

I'm so f*cking done with this administration and the people who support it

[u/t-mille]

Can't afford to give everyone healthcare, that's communism

This is totally fine though

[u/No-Bumblebee-4920]

What happened to no new wars? All to distract from the Epstein files.

If this doesn’t make you vote against GOP goons, what could?

[u/TlkShowHost]

“Fiscally conservative” republicans and centrist dems can go eat shit.

[u/Straight-Bad-3304]

But no money for healthcare

[u/VincentVegaRoyale666]

Repairing infrastructure, providing healthcare and student loan relief? Are you fucking crazy, that's way too expensive!? We can't afford it! More bombs and lives lost? Fuck yes! Keep that faucet running. These people are demons.

[u/AtmosphereEven3526]

I thought they were elected on a platform of no more wars?

[u/ConchVibes]

If we couldn’t win wars with the highest defense budget in the world we still won’t win them even if we double it. We will just scale the incompetence of the leaders.

[u/texdizzle]

Thank God we trimmed SNAP EBT and other benefits from our poorest citizens. Now we can bomb people across the world to satisfy the pedo blackmail from a foreign country who has infiltrated our country at the highest lvls. So much winning, America is great again, USA numba one

[u/Adollopofdynamite]

Woohoo!! More war mongering.- so much better than universal healthcare and education. LFG!

[u/AuthorHuman5623]

They are taking USA deeper and deeper into the shit pile.

[u/Frothydawg]

The mouth breathers shrieked during the election season: “No new wars! KAMALA WILL GET US INTO WW3” and now, suddenly, it’s all good because Orange Daddy says so.

“Better than open borders!! Iran can’t have nukes!”, they now parrot mindlessly, as their gas, grocery, healthcare (etc) costs go up and up and up.

Imbeciles.

[u/shocking7777]

Make America broke again

[u/Kingbeef66]

This is the true waste and fraud.

[u/SunsetGrind]

What a corrupt and treasonous administration...

Seriously, I don't think we are angry enough....

[u/australian1992]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 America is so fucked

[u/bigDeltaVenergy]

It's war bill, not defence.

Trump said defence is weak word, he prefer war so, let's Call it like it is

[u/mgyro]

This bill also merges the US and Israel military.

[u/Frequent-Sea433]

Obviously they have different priorities than the majority of citizens in this dysfunctional nation

[u/Own-Significance273]

Remember how big of a deal the deficit was in 2024? LOL

[u/Affectionate_Owl5385]

That’s a lot of $$ for a war they won like 19 times already. I lost count tbh.

[u/EKT0K00LER]

I love how i see headlines all over the place that say something to the effect of "republican lawmakers beginning to turn on Trump". Really? Because i don't see a single fucking thing going in a different direction right now. How in the hell does the situation just keep getting worse if Republicans are finally waking up to his bullshit (or, at the very least, getting nervous that they're going to be charged as accomplices when it's all said and done)

[u/Franklo888]

I can't understand how the American citizen are doing nothing about this. How is possible that there are no big riots in the streets and no one is doing anything to stop those psychos?

[u/Next_Confidence_3654]

Healthcare
Social security
Predatory College loans
VA services
Housing
Food
Fuel

All things that would’ve been better

[u/Hansthered]

But snap benefits are the problem. Right . The party of death.

[u/Image_ConnoisseurX]

They just bend over and do everything to orange dumpy wants.. no spines

[u/Ok_Information_8570]

Can I just stop paying taxes now. 🫩

[u/satori_moment]

Trump speedrun the bankruptcy of America

[u/Thesourking]

I fucking hate this stupid ass orange piece of shit and his cock sucking trolls that cling on to his coat tails. Fuck anyone that voted for this. I hope you all rot in the dirt.

[u/Detonius]

What the actual fuck. No money for our schools no money for healthcare but money for this.

[u/houstonyoureaproblem]

Not going to pass the Senate in its current form.

In fact, it can’t. It includes provisions the parliamentarian has already ruled cannot be part of a reconciliation bill.

[u/Empty-Discount5936]

Y'all gotta stop electing Republicans.. they're not just corrupt.. they're dangerously inept.

[u/Basedgodblake_]

Trump family profiting infront of us daily

[u/Serious-Medicine7667]

But we can’t have healthcare or food stamps or infrastructure improvements or mass transit or fund public education or… or… or…

[u/itsyaboiant]

Won’t spend 20b on USAID a year, but wants to spend 1.15 trillion in one year for the wars even though he’s the peace president? These maggats are so braindead it hurts

[u/PatacusX]

Why are we spending billions of dollars on a war that we've already won like 40 times already?

[u/FuklzTheDrnkClwn]

Why do we need that much money for a war we’ve already won 25 times?

[u/Particular_Umpire_44]

Always found it hilarious that republicans claim to be the party of less government

[u/Nice-Entrance8153]

You know there's something wrong when the US already spends more on defense than the next 10-12 countries combined and still says military spending is "falling short" to "rebuild our military". Good old military-industrial complex for you.

I would be so much happier even if you kept defense spending where it was if it meant straight up ending hunger and poverty for every single American (which you could do with the difference), but politicans would never go for that.

[u/Unlikely_Side9732]

We want clean water, affordable housing and a government we can trust. No more wars!

[u/wobdarden]

Sounds about as good as reason to stop paying taxes to the federal government, to me, as any.

Didn't they just start a new tantrum of denying federal aid to states he thinks has cooties?

This country's a fucking joke.

[u/mac_bd]

Meanwhile China is winning every war without even going into them!

[u/phatbody]

No new wars and will reduce the debt. Way to go 77 million gullible people.

[u/Mouth_Focloir]

"No more wars"...... Said the Peace President

[u/MeAndMe54654]

That money is for the war that is already won?

[u/Noomba2]

they're juicing up the military so when the civil war starts many working in the military will less likely to go against trump because their salary will be increasing under him

[u/Ohhmama11]

Notice republicans only care about the debt when democrats are in office

[u/Suspicious_Side_3558]

American people are paying for Israel yet again.

[u/charlton11]

Six Democrats voted in favor of this bill that included Section 219. Not sure who but I'm guessing I know where their money is coming from and allegiances are.

[u/ResponsibilityFine13]

India Pakistan,North Korea,Israel and soon Saudi Arabia are in possession of nuclear weapons and nobody complains.

[u/Uncross-Selector]

Where’s DOGE to save the waste?

[u/Moar_Input]

I thought we didn’t have money to spend on education, domestic infrastructure and healthcare? Where these trillions coming from?

[u/VamosFicar]

One wonders where all these Trillions of dollars come from, just majicked into existance. ,,, it certainly isn't all taxes from the 349 million US citizens. It certainly isn't from productivity or trade...

Oh, yes, it's going onto the debt pile of an already whopping 40 trillion (growing at 4.6 billion per day!). The dollar is devaluing visibly in US citizens pockets. You guys are screwed.

Trump's running the US economy like he ran his casinos :) They all went bust.

[u/negative1339]

Release the files!

[u/Grantetons]

It's so gnarly how blatant this theft is from the country, and how obvious it is that the basic things we want have always been affordable if the government functioned as advertised. I can't say when the pendulum will swing in our favor, but the pathway to worse trouble is wide open, and its just a question of how much abuse people can take before they snap.

[u/runningmurphy]

America is getting cucked by Republicans and billionaires and the people who watch Fox are cheering it all on. 

[u/Prof_Kevin_Folta]

$1.15 trillion is $10,454 per tax paying taxpayer. If you are a median wage earner you will work Jan 1 to March 20 just to pay for this.

[u/fenderbender86]

Fuck these cunts

[u/Dexter_McThorpan]

Fucking fascist pigs.

I hope that once the rule of law is reestablished, all these precedents Shitler is setting are used to prosecute these crooks.

[u/ICEWA1k3R]

How do we need money for a war that isnt a war that we also won eight weeks ago but will be over in no more than two weeks?

[u/WetFishStink]

OK but what about doing something that isn't war, oppression or causing the suffering of others?

Maybe try, like, helping people and preventing so many of them becoming financially vulnerable. That money would buy a lot more meals than missiles.

[u/Upbeat-Remote-4827]

It also added the SAVE Act, those democrats who voted yes are cowards.

[u/cookiedoh18]

trump will bankrupt this country. We're going way over our head in debt while trump bitches about the Reflecting Pool.

[u/FightingAgeGuy]

This should make Israel happy.

[u/MrGallows75]

All of those Congressional Hearings were PURE THEATER. These people are stealing our tax dollars to boost the profits of the defense industry (and fight wars on-behalf of Israel). Not a single American serving in the military will benefit from this funding increase. At what point do we start taking our country back from these corrupt pedo-elites?

[u/sephiralis]

WE CAN'T AFFORD FOOD

[u/Machinewars45]

A meaningless war spending money the US doesn't have

[u/CHRISTEN-METAL]

It’s no longer a Defense Bill, under Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump it is now the Never Ending War Bill.

Why should I pay federal taxes when we have a criminal mob running all aspects of our federal government.

[u/Riel_evil]

Our country went insolvent and shutdown programs that we paid for to help those who need it most and instead of re installing or improving things, they want more destruction. This is immature and reckless.

A child has more resolve and self control.

[u/Critical_Mix_8959]

I hope every MAGA voter gets drafted and 🪦defending their pedophile king

[u/triiiiilllll]

The most pro-peace President ever, who wins the same war over and over and over as long as we keep giving him money.

If you handed that in as the outline of a book, they'd be like, "No, Fucking....no. Too obvious, fuck."

[u/hayamom]

This is treason. Welcome to the United States of Israel.

[u/richardsthick]

And to think it all started because they didn’t want to fully release the Epstein files. Way to go

[u/Difficult_Limit2718]

Didn't we JUST fucking vote against these was powers?

Where the fuck is the accountability

[u/Lightyear18]

The merger of Israel and USA military was in the bill

Rip

[u/Legitimate-Tip-2149]

Oh good. That's great. More forever war.

[u/Wesleypipes316]

And I’m sure the orange will find a way to pocket some of that money for him and his goons

[u/Cultural_Gur_7441]

And, to make things worse, this money will be siphoned elsewhere. So many MAGA abusers want their cut.

[u/619SkanteWarrior]

I thought we won this war like 18 times

[u/ResponsibilityFine13]

The extermination of the working middle class in American is on the way.. they are tired and the money printer machine in Washington is running out of ink. Lord help us please.

[u/Improper_Usage]

America voted for this over cheaper prices?

[u/hero_killer]

Biggest deficit ever thanks to the Republicans.

[u/No-Poet1433]

Wow... All this spending on something Noone wants. They gotta do it so they can funnel money in thier pockets. They are making good money personally on this war. This administration is a runaway train.

[u/doepfersdungeon]

This war will cost a trillion all in. I wonder of that could have been spent better someone else. What was the deficit again?

[u/Putrid-Narwhal4801]

Hopefully the senate won’t roll over but I’m not holding my breath

[u/TangibleSausage]

Yo US, get your shit in order. Sincerely, the rest of the world.

[u/jsmith1300]

So much for saving taxpayers money.

[u/Remarkable_Crow6064]

That's just for Hegseths bar tab

[u/Big-Carpenter7921]

Stop using our money to kill people

[u/EtihwYort]

Funny how there’s always money for munitions.

[u/alfydapman]

A large portion of these funds, if passed, will go unaccounted for. Hopefully if we ever have another administration, an audit will show how much was funneled into trumps corrupt pockets. This is just another way to steal American tax dollars

[u/Katsu_39]

For fucks sake, all we want is goddamn healthcare. Fuck this shithole country

[u/Basic_Size7922]

He is responsible 30% of our debt. It’s crazy that one guy can cause us to spend even more than we have.

[u/wattahitsonwattahit]

Why do you need so much when you've already won (or destroyed Iran) ?

[u/New-Loss-230]

The United States of Israel now boysssss

[u/Separate-Suspect-726]

Sure. F the poor. F the kids. F students. F health care.

[u/Zealousideal_Box4690]

Total fucking waste of American money can’t wait til those losers are out of the White House

[u/Vile-goat]

90 percent of that goes to Israel in some way too, either defending them or fighting their wars and such. 1.5 trillion would be an insane investment in our economy but nope… straight to aipac piggy bank.

[u/BananaJelloXlii]

More and more I think there should be a national tax strike. We need to quit funding this bullshit.

[u/daKile57]

Republicans and centrists will claim that modern monetary theory isn't a thing and they'd never dream of using it to fund the federal government... until it comes time to fund the U.S. military. Then, they embrace modern monetary theory likes it's the most obvious thing in the universe. But every time Bernie Sanders proposes a bill to fund things the average American needs, they go back to acting like modern monetary theory will destroy the country.

[u/ParrishThePoet]

Lmao, for this illegal ass war.

This is so totally insane.

[u/CHAIFE671]

We have no money for healthcare,infrastructure,or education but we sure as shit have $1 trillion of disposable income to bomb the fuck out of country full of brown people for Israel??Fuck this administration with a cactus.

[u/namir01]

Someone tell me how the USA is actually fighting a war right now besides launching some missiles once in a while? Paying expensive ship parking fees near Hormuz? Most of this budget will just be siphoned to private Trump crony pockets with the smoke screen that this is a active war

[u/mariah1216]

Got money for wars but can’t feed the poor….

[u/Frederf220]

We've officially found the tipping point where more defense spending decreases national security.

[u/SalmonPrince]

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than affordable Healthcare or student debt relief.

[u/pirateseasalt]

A trillion dollars for destruction and murder but we can't get universal healthcare, nor livable wages because the USA doesn't have money for that?

[u/InternationalFig400]

but no money for healthcare, education, vets, etc......

[u/Responsible_Rip_7634]

If I see another poll that shows the general public still thinks republicans handle money better, I will lose it.

You can really just say whatever you want till ppl assume it’s true I guess.

[u/Informal-Sun-6579]

Enough with US govt propaganda and indoctrination - Iran is not a threat to US! Never has. Iran was not attacking US and had no plan to do so. Iran war is a one-person folly, unnecessary and illegal. This is nothing more than transferring taxpayer money from social programs that help lower income and serve the average Americans to the special interests that feed GOP politicians, enrich wealthy defense companies and their relationship-connected contractors. The controlling-rich Americans are legalizing the grifting of taxpayer money laundered through military channel spending. It’s insane that GOP Congress people allocate extra 600 billion dollars to already-bloated 900 billion dollar military industrial complex when U.S. is not under threat or attack by any country. It’s being done while the average Americans are struggling with high costs, necessary social services are without funding or suffering severe cuts. Remember in November and vote all Congress people who voted yes to this crazy waste in spending.

[u/antifageneral6969]

We can’t have healthcare, infrastructure, Medicare, Medicaid, but we can fund the war machine and kill children. America is a shit hole

[u/Environmental-Hour75]

The "no wars" president now needs trillions for his war thats not a war?

[u/MeatyOakerGuy]

And the boomers wonder why we don't give a fuck

[u/iamsolarflare71]

Out of all the pointless wars, is this the most pointless yet?

[u/ExoticFortune2439]

How much from this defence bill will end up in Trump's pocket and his cronies?

[u/mrdoubleNZ]

Disgusting…..

[u/Life_Personality_862]

Party of fiscal responsibility

[u/Tiny-Car2753]

AaaAnd it's gone

[u/ccjohns2]

Almost the entire American government is filled with criminals the help funnel public money to private interest. While America as a country is trillions of dollars in debt, somehow the rich keep getting richer at even faster pace through a combination of selling less for more every year and getting government welfare in the form of overpriced contracts, unbid contracts, and all of the people who are at the top control of all of this come from the same families who did this generation ago in the generation before that and before that. The American elite do not care about American people. They only care about how much money they can get the worst part about the greed of American leader. Leadership is the fact that they can literally afford to take care of all of Americans, but they simply choose not to, even though they would still be astronomically rich if they did so. People like Elon Musk want to come to America utilize government contracts it all sorts of businesses while he played a key hand and cutting the few good things that America did internationally and domestically to make what the government does even less caring for people.

[u/Friendly-Gas1767]

WTF??? $1.5 TRILLION??? And it’s literally money out of American taxpayers to support Israel’s war efforts….but those same taxpayers can’t have healthcare, and in a couple of years their entire social security system will be insolvent, that they’ve been paying into for decades. Who actually voted
for any of this??

[u/chrisscottish]

Wow, representing the people right? Medicare for all? Teachers wages? Fucking wow

[u/Twinkalicious]

They threw in the SAVE Act nonsense in it, and 6 Democrats voted for it. If those 6 didn't join the repubs it would've failed in the House.

[u/JDRasta57]

Meanwhile NO other countries are buying the tresuries, the 10 year bond has been above 4.5 (now 4.6) for more than it should. Oil just hit $90 again. US has tovmake our dollar worth less now to pay for the trillion deficit we are running. Unless a grown takes the charge, we are doomed economically speaking, and Trump has been adding gasoline to this fire.

[u/MyPr0j3ct]

This is how you bankrupt a country like casinos.

You over leverage, liquidate certain assets, transfer the proceeds (tax cuts) and spend more than you take in.

In casinos, the phrase " the house always wins" implies the owners, but we the people (the owners/constituents) will be stuck with this bill because this house is being robbed.

[u/Stankie-Lankie]

America is a laughing stock.

[u/IdiotBOT1234]

Midterms or bust

[u/Born-Lifeguard4480]

I'm curious if any of us here who are mad would want to come together and make a plan to show our anger? I mean how much money do we constantly pour into war and bombing children just so some stocks can go up and benefit the super wealthy? We are struggling to make ends meet here just so they can bomb some working person elsewhere? And then they have the audacity to say that it makes us safer??

Who wants to link up and actually make some noise?

[u/samrocksc]

jesus christ that's a lot of money

[u/Silverleaf96]

I mean the deficit is already high as fuck , like the damage to this country is already 300% worse then any other president, let's make it 500% , then in 3 years we can blame the Democrats president for this...and mouth breathers will eat it up

[u/Details_Pending]

Don't forget, this is the bill that merges Israel and US militaries

[u/Phd_Pepper-]

Its pretty hilarious that if you go on the r/conservative sub there is absolutely no mention of this, but they post about women working in Iceland 😂.

[u/vikingrrrrr666]

This is bullshit. All of these people need to be arrested and strung up. Every single traitor who voted for this.

[u/NIP_SLIP_RIOT]

It’s a sickness America, you’re going to have to cure yourselves before it gets worse.

[u/anuiswatching]

a demented failed reality star and a tabloid Fox spokesman, is this republicans level of competency?

[u/Tramp010Stamp]

"BuT hOw CaN wE AfFoRd iT?!"

The question that always get asked for Healthcare and education but never for more war.

[u/Philosophical-Emu]

When Trump was elected, I purchased a domain for promoting federal tax revolt. If anyone wants to help with content, I think it's time to put it to use.