President Trump Backs $750 Billion Pentagon Budget

It is too much to ask for a pathetic $5 billion for a border wall, but President Trump is prepared to spend $750 billion on a military which can’t be used to secure our own border:

“President Donald Trump has told Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to submit a $750 billion budget proposal for fiscal 2020, in a reversal from his pledge to trim defense spending, two people familiar with the budget negotiations have told POLITICO.

The $750 billion figure emerged from a meeting Tuesday at the White House among Trump, Mattis and the Republican chairmen of the House and Senate Armed Services committees, both people said.

“It’s 750. Secretary Mattis secured that over lunch with the president,” an administration official said of the meeting, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss a figure that has not yet been announced. Mattis was joined by Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas). “That’s the top line.” …

What do we need so bad that we have to spend $750 billion dollars to get it?

We have Boomers like ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis who want to send the US Navy into the Black Sea … to challenge Russia over its stupid ongoing border dispute with Ukraine.