“The BIGGEST Pigs At The Trough” – Trump’s $1 TRILLION Defense Bill Gets BRUTAL Chris Cuomo Take

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🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Trump’s camp floats a record $1 trillion Pentagon budget, sparking debate across the PBD panel. Markets respond, defense stocks bounce, and questions rise over waste, priorities, and whether America needs another arms race—or just better spending

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0:00.0	Okay, let me go with this one announcement that Chris is very excited about and supportive of.
0:04.9	Hexed Promise record $1 trillion dollar Pentagon budget.
0:08.1	If you want to play this clip, Rob, if you want to pull this out,
0:11.5	the markets responded favorably on this one when this was shown.
0:16.5	If you don't have the clip.
0:18.2	I do.
0:18.5	Just give me.
0:19.0	I'll find it at one time. Tom, your thoughts on the story here.
0:21.0	What, Hex said, Promise on a Trillion?
0:22.5	And how to market kind of a little bit of a balance.
0:24.9	Yeah, so I kind of did a double blink when I was listening to it.
0:28.1	I said, wait a minute.
0:28.6	So you got Doge in there. You're laying
0:39.3	off civilians that are in supplemental administrative positions as you defined it. And you're,
0:46.5	you're trying not to just drop all these arms off at NATO that now you want them to pay for.
0:53.4	So that wouldn't be your defense budget.
0:55.0	That would be with their bang from Boeing and Raytheon.
0:58.1	Okay, I get it.
1:00.3	But how do you get to the trillion thing?
1:02.8	It's like, I'm going to save all this money in government.
1:05.5	And then for my enemies, I'm going to scare the hell out of you because I'm bringing it up to a trillion.
1:10.4	There's going to be like Star Wars and Reagan. I'm going to have an even bigger, you know, an even
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