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Tucker Carlson: “The defense budget is in the neighborhood of a trillion…”

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Published May 28, 2025 | Video Starts at 43:54

So it's based on paying 10 bucks for a Big Mac and a Coke. Yeah. Inflation is a silent tax. It's really nasty. Do you have any hope? The defense budget is in the neighborhood of a trillion dollars. We face no invasion threat. We never have. We're separated from the rest of the world by two large oceans. Our standing force is not that huge, actually. (43:54–43:58)

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