President Donald Trump last month announced a record-setting $1.5 trillion defense budget for fiscal year 2027. But in that towering proposal, experts say there’s obvious signs of waste and overspend.
A recent Cato Institute report identified several weapons in next year’s defense budget request that the think tank deems unnecessary and ineffective. Among them is a battleship Trump announced in December, which the president named after himself. But the ship, in this case, the “Trump-class” battleship is what the Cato Institute considers to be technology so obsolete, as it’s from a time before the states of Alaska and Hawaii even existed.
