We keep being told that the federal government can't afford to pass policies
that benefit regular people that just isn't money there for it.
And I think I've figured out why the house voted to approve
the new National Defense authorization act today
setting the military budget at $858 billion for one year.
And that doesn't even represent all the money we will spend on national defense.
We're gonna get it up to and possibly exceeding $1 trillion, don't worry.
But first the details, the vote was 350-80 in favor of this.
There were 45 Democrats and 35 Republicans who voted no,
were to get into some of the people who thankfully voted against it.
But this is actually more than we initially thought would be in the budget.
It's $80 billion more than just last year,
$118 billion dollars above two years ago.
And by the way, it doesn't include all of the money that goes towards
maintaining and improving the US nuclear arsenal.
Whatever money goes to contribute to Ukraine's defense or veterans benefits,
that's all separate.
This is just the raw defense close to $900 billion dollars for a single year.
Now, what else is included in this?
Well, it includes a provision demanded by many Republicans requiring that
the Secretary of Defense rescind a mandate requiring
that members of the armed forces get COVID-19 vaccinations.
We want our soldiers to be well equipped and
dying of needless respiratory infections apparently.
It provides Ukraine with at least $800 million in additional security assistance
next year that will of course be supplemented many times.
It also includes a range of provisions to strengthen Taiwan amid tensions with China
as well as funds to develop new weapons and purchase systems.
Including the F-35 fighter jet and ships made by General Dynamics, including by
the way continuing weapons program that the administration had tried to cut.
It includes a new guided missile destroyer worth $2.2 billion that
the Biden administration didn't want, and so how do you get $858 billion?
Well, you give every military contractor everything they want and
some things they didn't even expect to get.
That's how.
>> Yeah.
So my main question is how are you gonna pay for that?
Okay, so we hear that every time there's a bill that would actually help the average
American paid family, child tax credit, Medicare for all free college.
How are you gonna pay for that?
This is a monstrous bill laden with pork,
like greasy pork just oozing out of every pore, right?
And that's why the Republicans and
the Democrats all of a sudden found bipartisanship.
They can't agree on anything which gender is Mr. Potato head democrats say this.
The Republicans say that critical race theory, it's not taught anywhere.
It's not even an issue, but they can't agree.
They have so much disagreement.
Giant pork, complete and utter corruption going to the donors with
both the Republican and Democratic politicians.
They have instant agreement.
In fact they added $50 billion on top of what was requested.
Why?
Because they eat the corporate pork.
That's what this is about now.
Okay politicians are gonna do what's in their best interests and
their best interest is to collect millions of dollars in
campaign contributions from defense contractors.
Where's the media?
The media is the one that leads the charge on how are you gonna pay for that.
Isn't it amazing that no reporters asked how you gonna pay for this?
This monstrosity?
This this thing that swallows up our entire budget and
look at little parts of it to the Taiwan part.
Remember when Nancy Pelosi went to Taiwan,
we told you that seemed like totally out of blue and TYT told you the reason
she went was so that they could funnel more money to defense contractors.
Go my God there's a problem with Taiwan and China.
It is such a big conflict.
We have to give sell more billions of dollars of weapons to Taiwan.
Some of that has to be funded by the the American taxpayer.
Golly Gee where did that come out of?
What we told you where it came out of?
We told you why she did it and here it is.
Here's the conclusion of it?
Did did you hear anybody else in mainstream media tell you that?
I mean, who was right and who was wrong?
It's in the budget now, right.
Came out of nowhere after Pelosi went to Taiwan and here it is in the budget,
we were right.
They were all wrong.
Turn off the mainstream media.
It's not actually news, it's just corporate marketing.
Otherwise they would be furious about the overspending in this bill.
>> Yeah, I mean, I think the thing beyond the fact that this money could be used for
so many other things that truly make us safe.
Healthcare, housing, education to name
three basic fundamental human rights.
it's terrible foreign policy.
It's just continues to be terrible foreign policy.
And I say that as someone who honestly has a little bit of respect for
Biden as a vice president.
Because of some of the agreements he brokered with Iran and
with Cuba I know John Kerry had a very big role in that too.
But Biden also had a role in that under the Obama administration, but
he's gone completely off the rails on it.
Especially when it comes to China and more and more money to be honest with you to
bring us farther from finally addressing climate change on an international level.
I know there was a recent UN climate summit that apparently China is
on board to work with the United States.
But every time we hand more and more money to like building up Taiwan's defense etc.
We get farther and farther from literal survival in this country.
And so again when it comes to the mainstream media versus like progressives
and even we don't do a good enough job.
And filtering through some of the Bs that were told about China and
actually how to really deescalate.
We now just throw money at the problem and I know we're gonna get into this but
these are people who fail the audit every single year.
The pentagon has just money unaccounted for completely unaccounted on, meanwhile
people who are on welfare to work programs because they can't get welfare.
No they can't feed their kids unless they're trying to work every single day
taking them away from their kids etc.
The pentagon know they can waste as much money as they want.
>> And it's a lot of money so we've given you the wrong numbers now let's compare it
because the wrong number doesn't really tell you if it's necessary.
Maybe if the US military budget next year instead of being $880 billion was
800 maybe we would be immediately invaded along our north and south borders.
I don't know but
what I do know is that it's more than the combined military budgets of China, India,
the UK, Russia, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Japan and south Korea.
You can actually see in this chart the comparison of the two,
the whole rest of the world like basically amounts to a rounding error.
After all of that China has a very tiny fraction of the military
spending that we do.
But we will be told that if it was any lower look, if you try to cut it,
you are an insane radical.
If you try to slow the growth, you're a crazy person despite the fact that we
spend more than basically everyone else in the world now, some people, thankfully.
By the way that was last year's figure.
That chart we showed you our military budget is more than 10% bigger than it
was in that comparison.
There were some who did vote against it.
Let's bring up the people who were willing to defy that.
There's been a lot of talk recently thrown around about moderates and centrists and
that's being applied to people like Kirsten Sinema.
I personally think that opposing a massive needless insane increase to our
military budget seems pretty moderate, pretty reasonable.
It actually comports with what people really want and you can see their members
of the squad as well as others, a lot of names that you're gonna recognize.
>> Okay, I wanna give credit to some of the progress is that don't often vote
the right way.
I love Katie Porter where she takes on corporate executives in Congress
in those hearings, Jamie Raskin has been a giant in handling Trump and
legal issues and many other things.
But when push comes to show they don't usually vote with progressives.
They usually do as leadership tells them to do.
In this case, leadership, let's be honest too.
There's a lot less pressure because leadership knew,
well get Republicans to vote for this as well.
Every corrupt member of Congress is gonna vote yes.
So we'll have plenty of votes.
Plenty votes are springing out of both parties here when it comes to
corporate pork.
But still credit to Raskin Porter, Chewy Garcia and the other progressives that
went along with the justice Democrats and voted no on this defense bill.