Hegseth's $1.5 Trillion Budget Slammed as 'Slush Fund'

Sunday, May 17, 2026

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth recently asked Congress for a staggering amount of money: $1.5 trillion. That's a more than 40 percent increase from last year's also incomprehensible Pentagon budget and the equivalent of the annual revenues of Amazon, Google's parent company and Apple combined.

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Trump and Hegseth thought this war was going to be won with bombs. Iran had a different plan.

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LOL

The pot calling the kettle black!
NOW you idiots worry about fraud and grift. GTFOH....

BTW: Hows that Green New deal coming along?

#1 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-05-17 08:40 PM | Reply

How's your child-raping hero's excursion going?

#2 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-05-17 08:55 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

What did anyone expect from a second-rate news host (if he were first-rate, why was he on the weekends?).

What surprises me here is that something rational and though-out was expected from Sec of Defense Hegseth.

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-05-17 09:29 PM | Reply

American Fascism is costly...and profitable, of course. I do fear what our American military will do, is doing, across the globe and within our cities if Trump has his way. Damn the Republican Party for not fighting him when they had the chance. It is murder to attack a nation that is no danger to the US, and kill its military members defending their homeland, just to steal oil, or, as in the case of Cuba, grab exile votes to keep Florida Red, and submerging.

#4 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-05-18 06:52 AM | Reply

NOW you idiots worry about fraud and grift. GTFOH....
BTW: Hows that Green New deal coming along?

#5 | Posted by oneironaut

Always have been, dumbf*&^. Actual fraud and waste, though, no the buzzword version dumb pieces of s*&^ like you trot out these days.

BTW you're a lying sack of s*&^, so f*&^ off.

#5 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-18 09:47 AM | Reply

"BTW: Hows that Green New deal coming along?"

It was never enacted, so it's pretty hard to see how it's involved in any fraud.

But since you see how, tell us about it.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-18 10:14 AM | Reply

Is it $1.5 billion or $1.7 billion Dollars?

Pretty soon we'll be talking real money.

Real taxpayer money.

Stop the steal! (The real steal.) We cannot afford any more of this "winning"!

#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-05-18 10:34 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"BTW: Hows that Green New deal coming along?"

I stepped into the alternate universe for a second where the Green Deal was passed and guess what? Energy was so cheap there Iran had nothing to blackmail us with and they have already signed a nuclear deal there.

Also Trumpy is in prison over there. So I almost stayed but I forgot to bring my dog.

#8 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-05-18 10:38 AM | Reply

No ----.

Keghead has demands.

Steak, Lobster and Grand Pianos are expensive.

Lets not forget to throw in a few new Gulfstreams for himself.

Just pillaging all he can before the system collapses.

#9 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-05-18 03:02 PM | Reply

Hegseth says the massive 40% increase will address "fraud, waste and abuse". Republican math and logic.

#10 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2026-05-19 01:45 PM | Reply