$50 billion. How much the Trump administration says it wants to add to an already massively inflated defense budget to pay for a war that was never authorized by Congress? $1 trillion. The Pentagon's budget this year. One and a half trillion dollars. The total amount that Trump is reportedly requesting for the Pentagon budget for next year. That means Republicans in Congress want to increase the Pentagon's budget by $500 billion. (08:50–08:55)
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Asserts that the Pentagon's budget for the year is $1 trillion.
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