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Washington ordered to reduce the Pentagon budget by a third

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The American Defense Department’s budget (Pentagon) for 2025 is about $ 850 billion.

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegset has ordered to develop a plan for the annual reduction of defense budget by 8% over the next five years. About this on Wednesday, February 19, the Washington Post reported reference to the Hegset Memorandum.

In the document, the head of the American Defense Department requires providing options for reducing costs until February 24. The list proposed by the Donald Trump administration indicates 17 categories, the financing suggested i -cut. Among them: operations on the southern border of the United States, the modernization of nuclear weapons and missile defense, as well as the acquisition of submarines, unilateral shock drone and other weapons types.

It is assumed that costs will be reduced within five years.

WP’s note that the hegset budget directive complies with a separate term of the Trump administration to provide the lists of thousands This.

“These efforts are controlled by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE),” the newspaper indicates.

The WP writes that more than 900,000 civilian workers work at the Pentagon, most of them veterans. The Pentagon also controls about 1.3 million military servicemen and nearly 800,000 National Guard troops and the reserve.

In the memorandum, Hegset described the proposed abbreviations as a continuation of Trump’s Polish policy policy.

“Previously, Republicans, including hegsets, for years have criticized Democrats for insufficient costs for national defense,” the publication added.

As we wrote earlier, Billions of Billions of Masks gained access to the US Department of Finance’s payment system, where trillion dollars of government payment dollars passed.

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