President Trump’s need for Hollywood drama is going to be expensive:
Senior Republicans privately expect President Donald Trump’s administration to request tens of billions of dollars for the Middle East conflict and other military needs from Congress in the coming days, with some GOP lawmakers hearing estimates that the Pentagon is spending as much as $2 billion a day on the war. [Politico]
It’s not just the money, but the hardware expenditures, as interceptor missiles take a while to produce. In fact, President Trump is trying to encourage higher production:
President Trump said major defense contractors have agreed to quadruple the production of “exquisite class” weaponry following a meeting Friday at the White House.
“They have agreed to quadruple Production of the ‘Exquisite Class’ Weaponry in that we want to reach, as rapidly as possible, the highest levels of quantity. Expansion began three months prior to the meeting, and Plants and Production of many of these Weapons are already under way,” the president said in a post on Truth Social.
The executives of BAE Systems, Boeing, Honeywell, L3Harris, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon were at the meeting and another huddle was scheduled two months from now. [The Hill]
Although I’m guessing it’s so he can fire off more missiles at the Iranians; he’s not worrying about attacks from other nations. After all, what’s another foreign war or three?
