Trump's new budget says a lot of things that Trump probably would have liked to avoid saying.

And I've got two interviews. Robert Garcia discusses the validity of Pambani subpoena now that she's been fired.

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I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie.

So I'm not sure that you could have had a worse timed announcement than the one that Donald Trump himself just put out.

So he's proposed a $1.5 trillion defense budget.

The current defense budget, just to give you an idea here, is about $875 billion.

So this would be almost double. Global military spending in 2025

was $2.5 trillion, meaning the U.S. would be responsible for 60% of the world spending on the

military, all at the hands of the guy who spent the year leading up to his election saying that

his winning will mean no new wars. In fact, he's been singing this

tune for years. Back in 2019, Trump tweeted, quote, the United States has spent $8 trillion

fighting and policing in the Middle East. Thousands of our great soldiers have died or been

badly wounded. Millions of people have died on the other side. Going into the Middle East is

the worst decision ever made."

And now, that same guy is asking for $1.5 trillion per year to go back to the Middle East.

And all of this would be bad enough unto itself, right?

But worse is what Donald Trump is cutting in order to fund his Forever War, to fund this new $1.5 trillion

budget. So here's just a small sampling of what he would have to cut. He would cut the EPA budget

by half, cut $10.7 billion for housing, $8.5 billion for K-12 programs, $15 billion for clean

energy, $2.5 billion for clean drinking water, $1.6 billion for youth job training, $2.5 billion for clean drinking water, 1.6 billion for youth job training,

$3.5 billion from the Labor Department, $395 million for senior employment, $775 million in food

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