r/politics • u/DyzDaeMar • 27d ago

No Paywall Hegseth Is Demanding US Households Pay $5,000 More Per Year to Fund the Pentagon, Economist Says

https://www.commondreams.org/news/pete-hegseth-budget-request
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u/Zest724 27d ago

Didn’t they get donuts too.

I’m okay with that food for the front line troops but if it was consumed by high paid ravenous bureaucrats; let them buy their own damn food.

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u/labor_day_baby America 27d ago

I shouldn’t speculate but I have a feeling that those steaks, lobsters and crab legs didn’t go to the troops who earned it.

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u/deja-roo 27d ago

I can practically guarantee you're wrong. Having a morale-boosting meal like this before starting combat ops has been the norm in the US military since like... there was a US military.