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< p > Minister of Defense Pete Hegset ordered the Pentagon leadership and to all US military departments to develop plans to reduce the defense budget by 8%over the next five years. < p > < p > writes The Washington Post about this with reference to unnamed officials familiar with this issue.< p > “this amazing proposal will surely encounter internal resistance and a sharp binoparty opposition in the Congress,” the article says
< p > according to the information of the publication’s interlocutors, the hegset ordered to prepare proposals for reducing expenses until February 24. We are talking about 17 expenses that the Trump administration wants to exclude or significantly cut. Among them:
< p >The Pentagon budget for 2025 is about $ 850 billion, while a wide consensus has been reached on the Capitol Hill that, in particular, large extensive expenses are needed to contain external threats from China and Russia. If the budget is adopted in full, the offered reductions will include tens of billions of dollars over the next five years.
< p > budgetary directive of the hegset appeared after a separate order of the Trump administration, which provides for an audit of thousands of employees of the Ministry of Defense for a probationary period. It is expected that they will be dismissed this week to reduce the federal bureaucracy.< p > “, in aggregate, these two decisions are a crushing attack on the largest department of the government, which operate more than 900,000 civil servants, including veterans. The test term in the Ministry of Defense can last from one to three years, depending on from office and may include employees who moved from one position to another, ”the authors say Articles.
< p >The Pentagon also oversees about 1.3 million existing military personnel and almost 800 thousand people who serve in the National Guard and Reserve. But at least at the moment, the military personnel will not affect the reduction of the budget.
< p > hegset on Tuesday, February 18, he tried to submit plans to reduce the budget as a continuation of Trump's Polish policy through force. But in fact, this is a sharp change in Trump’s course, which in the past advanced for increasing military expenses, and the Republicans, including the hash, criticized the Democrats for insufficient expenses for national defense for years. ~ 60 > 62 ~ < p > “The preparation time has passed – we must act urgently to revive the spirit of the warrior, restore our army and restore the deterrence. Our budget will provide the combat forces we need, cease unnecessary defense expenses, refuse excessive bureaucracy and conduct effective reforms, including progress in the audit, ”said Hegset.
< p > the publication notes that the proposed abbreviations, if they are accepted, will become the largest attempt to curb the Pentagon expenses since 2013, when the budget reduction authorized by Congress, known as sequestration. At that time, these reductions were perceived as a crisis in the Pentagon and became increasingly unpopular among the Republicans and among the democrats, since their influence on the military’s ability to learn and readiness for war became obvious. < p > Recall, US President Donald Trump instructed the billionaire Ilon Mask to reconsider the costs of defense and education. The US Department of Defense largely depends on the mask using its companies to launch most military satellites.
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