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Amid war today, a budget draft anticipates the fighting of tomorrow
Ira Porter
Drones. Submarines. Missiles. Troops. As a candidate for president, Donald Trump pledged to rebuild the military and draw down the national debt. As Anna Mulrine Grobe reports, today, those two goals are at odds with each other. The president鈥檚 proposed $1.5 trillion defense budget would modernize U.S. forces after a quarter-century of near constant war fighting. The Pentagon calls it a 鈥済enerational investment.鈥� But it would come at a cost to education, housing, and other policy initiatives while adding, by one calculation, roughly $5.8 trillion in new debt over the next decade. Nor does it cover the Iran war.
