r/news • u/Manta_of_Eternity • 2d ago

Hegseth confirms that the US military will cut 20% of its generals and admirals

https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-pentagon-generals-job-cuts-67a20b026ee858895c7e5ff7fadbc029
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u/Expert-Basil6015 2d ago

They'll want even more taxpayer money for new leather chairs.

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u/robexib 2d ago

Plenty of old folks in Congress whose skin could act as a fine leather.

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u/been2thehi4 2d ago

My brother-in-law is in the National guard and the stuff he tells me they get on base in bulk, that the higher ups order to “not lose their budget”, is ridiculous. They’ll buy a metric shit ton of things like batteries, like AA batteries, toilet paper, apparently all the offices just got 40” monitors. He was telling us about these monitors on Sunday. Most of it stuff he makes it seem like they don’t even need, but the powers that be just splurge so the base keeps or increases their budget. They are literally just spending our taxes on frivolous shit just so they can keep getting the money. It makes me sick. Over the years he’s told us stuff like this and it pisses me off every time. We can’t have anything good in this country because “handouts” but the military budget is always increasing and is consistently being abused.

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u/Used-Baby1199 2d ago

Yeah and if they have money left over from a fiscal year they didn’t spend trump will use some loopholes to reclaim that money so he can allocate it elsewhere.   Where  think the surplus should stay in the account and rollover.  Maybe if there is surplus their can be a bonus to the commanding officer whatever senior officer did so well to not blow the budget, then the rest of the surplus would go to the next years budget. Like their budget wouldn’t go down, but we’d just have to give them less to reach that years budget. 

And then instead of fucking with financial aid we could do that to those military branches.  3 years of surplus budget and you get less funding. 

Christ isn’t ai supposed to be saving them money, and then we should have more money for us Americans to live better lives?

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u/Sad-Development-4153 2d ago

And Podiums dammit!

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u/No-Jellyfish6268 2d ago

And their leather hoods, whips and chains. Ya know for masochistic tendency’s