When leadership and mindset - Defense Spending by Country (2020)
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Trump’s Gargantuan Military Budget Is Full of It
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The White House’s own book-length summary of the overall budget reveal that the Trump administration is requesting $20 billion more for military programs than for all the other federal programs combined—and that this difference is projected to grow in the coming years. It also reveals that, whereas next year’s military budget will increase by $5 billion, federal student loan programs will be cut by $6 billion, Medicaid and children’s health programs will be cut by $8 billion, and cuts in welfare programs—which the White House labels “reforms”—will be cut by $20 billion.
Trump's "drain the swamp" means 'drain the expertise'. Excerpt from yours ..
"In May 2018, Trump ordered the NSC’s entire global health security unit shut down, calling for reassignment of Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer and dissolution of his team inside the agency. The month before, then-White House National Security Advisor John Bolton pressured Ziemer’s DHS counterpart, Tom Bossert, to resign along with his team. Neither the NSC nor DHS epidemic teams have been replaced. The global health section of the CDC was so drastically cut in 2018 that much of its staff was laid off and the number of countries it was working in was reduced from 49 to merely 10. Meanwhile, throughout 2018, the U.S. Agency for International Development and its director, Mark Green, came repeatedly under fire from both the White House and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. And though Congress has so far managed to block Trump administration plans to cut the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps by 40 percent, the disease-fighting cadres have steadily eroded as retiring officers go unreplaced...." Your link - https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/what-we-know-about-the-trump-admins-response-to-coronavirus.html https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=153995534
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