Each day we seem to lose so much, at some point it’s either going to be too much or we’ll need to create something new. As Emily St. John Mandel said in Station Eleven — Survival is insufficient.
Yesterday’s Good Trouble rally was a bit more sparse than I’d like, but there were several spread around the tri-state. Common themes as usual.
For the daily OBBB, there’s more Armed Services, including privatized military unaccompanied housing, enhancement of shipbuilding, as well as ENHANCEMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE RESOURCES FOR INTEGRATED AIR AND MISSILE DEFENSE, which includes: $5,600,000,000 for development of space-based and boost phase intercept capabilities and $7,200,000,000 for the development, procurement, and integration of military space-based sensors.
There’s also LAYERED HOMELAND DEFENSE .—In addition to amounts otherwise available, there are appropriated to the Secretary of Defense for fiscal year 2025, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to remain available until September 30, 2029—
$2,200,000,000 for acceleration of hypersonic defense systems; $800,000,000 for accelerated development and deployment of next-generation intercontinental ballistic missile defense systems $408,000,000 for Army space and strategic missile test range infrastructure restoration and modernization in the United States Indo-Pacific Command area of operations west of the international dateline; $1,975,000,000 for improved ground-based missile defense radars; and $530,000,000 for the design and construction of Missile Defense Agency missile instrumentation range safety ship.
I thought with America First and No More Foreign Wars, we’d be cutting the military budget?