Pete Hegseth’s $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget request is DOA after Democrats swept midterms, but global defense spending could still hit $8 trillion
“What is driving this whole enormous bill? In Europe, it's the combination of the war for four years in Ukraine and Russia, and the unreliability of the United States to support NATO.”
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