Steven Rattner

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344 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2024 last heard 16 Apr

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The Don Lemon Show · HOT TOPICS | How Long Will The Strait Of Hormuz Blockade Last? · 16 Apr 2026 podcast

And then some related things.

Veterans, of course, are part of defense in a sense of taking care of them.

DOJ, terrorism, narcotics trafficking and so forth.

Prosecutions got to fix our air traffic control.

So he's got a few pluses.

But boy, it's a sea of red ink for all of our major cabinet departments.

This is, on an inflation-adjusted basis, we can say the largest defense budget in history going all the way back to World War II.

He wants to go from roughly a trillion dollars to a trillion and a half dollars.

You can see some of our other recent wars here.

You can see, for example, you go all the way back to Vietnam.

You can see in the early 80s, early 90s, rather, the first Gulf War.

You can see the Iraq War.

And now he wants to go all the way up here.

But even more dramatically than that, because it's coming from everything I just showed you before, it dramatically reverses the kind of detente, if you will, or the balance that the two sides have found and how our budgets are constructed.

For a long time,

Domestic and defense spending were roughly equal as a percent of GDP.

That was a kind of informal, as I said, pact between the Republicans and the Democrats.

COVID pushed up domestic spending.

We all knew why.

But that balance stayed pretty much the same.

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