Congress looking to lower defense spending

 American Briefing:

This week the House of Representatives slammed the door on bigger defense budgets without more accountability.

The fissure opened at the end of the 118th Congress among Republicans voting on funding for the U.S. military. After much wrangling, the Senate and House agreed to setting the Pentagon’s budget in fiscal 2025 to $884 billion.

But that’s not the whole story.

The Senate approved $909 billion for America’s military, but several House conservatives yanked the brake lever on the extra $25 billion.

Hawkish corners of the conservative world squawked in protest. The Wall Street Journal editorial board lamented that the Republicans of the 2020s may join the Republicans of the 1930s in “failing to protect the country.” The bizarre claim that greater military spending might have prevented World War II omits the glaring fact that Democrats controlled the House, Senate and White House from 1933 through 1947.
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Americans are jittery about Washington’s spending spree on all programs, not just the Department of Defense. Just look at the excitement surrounding DOGE (the Department of Government Efficiency) headed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. There is a real air of excitement on both sides of the aisle that the pair can whack back our regulatory thicket and curb the nation’s $36 trillion federal debt and $2 trillion annual budget shortfall.
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Congress used to worry about billions being spent and now they worry about the trillions.  Hopefully, the Musk-Ramaswamy effort will be able to get the spending back under control.  We should be able to protect the country with a few trillion less spending.  Musk was able to make X profitable by cutting staff and other expenditures.  I would give him a shot at doing the same thing for the government.

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