In a recent speech, Trump said that the federal government’s top priority was paying for war and national defense. He said that the feds could not afford to pay for daycare, Medicare, and Medicaid. Programs like that, he said, should be paid for by the states, not the federal government.
Trump presented Congress with a budget that requested $1.5 trillion for the military–an increase over the present $1 trillion– while cutting domestic programs.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Timothy Synder says that it is likely that this is the fund that Trump wants to use for payoffs to the military for supporting the coup he is planning for November, when, otherwise, Trump loses both Houses and his power. Trump’s henchman would control the flow of the money for this Department of War against Democracy and the American People.
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Trump is trying to provoke a rebellion that he can use as his Rechstag Fire. Declare martial law, cancel the elections.
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This is what I’ve been worried about. I’m wondering what false flag event they are planning.
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Trump in a rare moment of honesty. He doesn’t give a microbe on a hair on a rat’s tushy for ordinary Americans, including his supporters. When will they ever learn?
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Bet the Republicans love this. That’s been the mantra forever: Fed is for the military and diplomacy (not much of the latter from the orange idiot). Leave the rest to the states.
They conveniently forget that we have had Amendments proposed and made into law since the original Constitution was written. They just don’t like those changes.
Reconstruction was never fully implemented. We’re still fighting a Civil War.
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