President Donald Trump on Wednesday proposed setting military spending at $1.5 trillion in 2027, citing "troubled and dangerous times."
Trump called for the massive surge in spending days after he ordered a U.S. military operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and spirit him out of the country to face drug trafficking charges in the United States. U.S. forces continue to mass in the Caribbean Sea.
The 2026 military budget is set at $901 billion.
Trump in recent days has also called for taking over the Danish territory of Greenland for national security reasons and has suggested he's open to carrying out military operations in Colombia. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ominously warned that longtime adversary Cuba "is in trouble."
"This will allow us to build the 'Dream Military' that we have long been entitled to and, more importantly, that will keep us SAFE and SECURE, regardless of foe," Trump said in a posting on Truth Social announcing his proposal. He added that he feels comfortable surging spending on the military because of increased revenue created by his administration through tariffs imposed on friends and foes around the globe since his return to office.
Meanwhile, Trump on Wednesday also threatened to cut off Pentagon purchases from Raytheon, one of the biggest U.S. defense contractors, if the company did not end the practice of stock buybacks and invest more profits into building out its weapons manufacturing capacity.
Trump in recent months has repeatedly complained that defense companies have been woefully behind on deliveries of critical weaponry, yet continue to mete out dividends and stock buybacks to investors and offering eye-popping salaries to top executives.
"Either Raytheon steps up, and starts investing in more upfront Investment like Plants and Equipment, or they will no longer be doing business with Department of War," Trump said on social media. "Also, if Raytheon wants further business with the United States Government, under no circumstances will they be allowed to do any additional Stock Buybacks, where they have spent Tens of Billions of Dollars, until they are able to get their act together."
Trump proposes massive increase in 2027 defense spending to $1.5 trillion to build 'Dream Military'
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GHM, ITT, CW, MOG.A, CRS, ATI, LDOS, CACI, BELFB, HWM, OSIS, ISSC, FEIM, ESE.
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There are few smaller names, but cannot list due to the market cap size.
Take the money off healthcare. Sorted. He’d be an idiot to do that. One way to get rid of your supporters. He’s done and is now clutching the straws.
Guy also beats down on big defense contractors for buybacks, dividends, and executive compensations
Raytheon got singled out
Typical stick and carrot thing here
Meanwhile maga says US is broke due to childcare subsidies in leftist states
Methinks the madman is going to get many Americans killed to deflect from his Epstein Pictures.
Trump creates dangers in the world, partners with bad regimes.
A TruthSocial defense ETF was released it last week. He’s profiting off his self created chaos.
With what money?
No fucking hell no. They already can’t pass any audits they need less
Military budget was bigger than the next 6 on the list at 800 billion btw
didn’t he just make NATO cough up to fund their own EU military? are there no savings there? WTF
And somehow RTX is down
His ICE military he’s used against citizens isn’t enough?
The current 2026 military budget is 1.01 trillion.
Highest in world history.
The government added 2.3 trillion dollars to the debt last year and spending rose 4%.
It spend 45% more money than it takes in.
1.5 trillion would be a 50% increase in military spending and 7% increase in total spending- which is already higher than revenues.
DOGE cut like 9% of federal employees and spending went UP📈
It would mean rampant inflation and debt generation- which is harder than ever to get other countries to buy right now. Imagine trying to convince the rest of the world to invest in US debt when servicing alone costs 25-40% of the government budget every year and a sycophant is installed to keep interest rates low completely against market demand.
TLDR- this is fucking stupid for a sitting president to say and it would very likely cause the economic collapse of the United States
Moon dat ONDS
You guys have One of the worse health care systems of developed nations.
But damn, you guys love voting for people who keep this true.
As if we don’t already have such an outrageously powerful military… where the biggest air force in the world is the USAF, and the second biggest is the US Navy. Where we can go in and pluck out heads of state like a damn claw machine and “run the country.”
And our insane debt level as it is? A 65% increase in spending?
This guy is out of fucking control.
Trump has plans to invade and plunder a lot of countries. World wide miltary spending is 2.7 trillion.
Remember when the dominant narrative for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is an imperialistic madman on the likes of Hitler? Where are those same people today? Trump doesn’t even try to wrap it up to deny it. He unashamedly makes his imperialistic intentions explicit.
No more department of defense, it’s the department of war, so this isn’t defense spending, it’s war spending.
He should just pay down the fucking debt rather than bullying the world
We will be a dictatorship hell bent on conquering other peoples nations. Give us hell rest of the world.
He’ll be impeached before that
How about paying that debt down that will bankrupt usa eventually?…
How about instead of that, we dramatically increase the efficiency of the military and stop private corporations from ripping off the American people by charging ridiculous prices for the items they need.
No money for healthcare but we got more than enough for the bombs.
Headlines like this just confirm direct market manipulation by the govt. and continuing blowout deficits. Look for alternative investments like metals, crypto and even assets like art to get a second wind. International equities should continue to do well with a weakening dollar.
to control the populace more like
So we’ve been told we don’t have any money for healthcare or feeding kids or education or fighting poverty, but then we do have money for military and war apparently…
You guys are getting ready for war. Great.
as an european, im so scared of your potus