Trump’s administration seeking a widespread decline in US military budget
report to Mehr News Agency , Washington Post reported:” Pete reported Hegst US Secretary of Defense ordered the Pentagon to formulate a plan to widen military budget reduction.
Based on This report, this act can reduce the annual reduction of 2 % and a total of 2 in total Lead to billion dollars over the next five years.
US defense budget is about $ 2 billion in year 2, but if the project is fully implemented, it will be reduced to $ 5 billion by year.
This report did not provide details about the exact location of the reduction, but it was said earlier that the reduction of Pentagon civilian forces, not military personnel, was on the agenda.
This decision was announced last week, “Ministry Efficiency State” led by leadership Ilan Mask had visited the Pentagon.
is expected to face strong opposition from the army and Congress.
Trump supported a bill in the House of Representatives on Wednesday that increases the defense budget of $ 5 billion.
In addition, the Pentagon budget decline is in conflict with Trump’s previous requests and his defense minister to increase NATO’s military spending to five percent of GDP. /p>
The US is currently spending about 4.9 percent of its GDP on military spending and reducing the defense budget, reaching a 5 % threshold for Trump. Will make it more difficult.
in the submission notes Hegust The Pentagon has been asked by authorities until February 1 (۱۳ March) to prepare a budget reduction program.
In this instruction, four areas are excluded from cost reduction, including US-Mexico border operations, nuclear weapons modernization and missile defense systems.
Also, regional command budget Mann Indian Command, Pacific and Spatial Command will be maintained , But important commands such as the European Command, which played a central role in the US strategy in the Ukrainian war, as well as the US Army Command in Africa (Span Style = “Text-align: Right”> Africam ) and the US Central Command in the Middle East ( Syntcom ) are not seen in the list of exclusive sections of budget reduction .
Hegst has emphasized the need to rebuild the army and reduce unnecessary costs. The Department of Defense must quickly restore the spirit of war, rebuilding the army and strengthening deterrence.
Trump earlier promised to reduce government costs and support Washington in Ukraine in Stop war with Russia.
