The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth has ordered senior leaders at the Pentagon and throughout the US military to develop plans for cutting 8% from the defense budget in each of the next five years, according to a memo obtained by the Washington Post.
Hegseth ordered the proposed cuts to be drawn up by 24 February, according to the memo, which includes a list of 17 categories that the Trump administration wants exempted. Among them: operations at the southern US border, modernization of nuclear weapons and missile defense and acquisition of one-way attack drones and other munitions. If adopted in full, the proposed cuts would include tens of billions of dollars in each of the next five years.
According to the Post, the memo calls for continued “support agency” funding for several major regional headquarters, including Indo-Pacific command, northern command and space command. Notably absent from that list is European command, which has had a leading role in executing US strategy during the war in Ukraine; central command, which oversees operations in the Middle East; and Africa command, which manages the several thousand troops the Pentagon has spread across that continent.
Also consider no longer giving your government free loans through your tax returns.
Also correct! Your withholding should only ever be set to give you a $100-$300 refund every year at absolute max, as you want to pay as close as you can to your true liability without incurring a tax bill when you file.
Taxes are not “free loans.” Libertarian nonsense. When implemented properly, which even U.S. taxes often are at a more local level, you get a shitload of return. You know, like paved roads and food that isn’t full of dangerous pathogens.
I’m pretty sure he means adjusting the claim level so instead of getting money back during tax time, you end up about what you owe or owe more. That way the money was in your pocket the whole time instead of the governments.
Yup that’s what I meant. And really just because of this whole current situation, ya know?