{"id":304736,"date":"2026-10-13T16:52:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T12:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=304736"},"modified":"2026-10-13T16:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T12:59:09","slug":"staggering-sum-us-announces-potential-increase-in-military-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/304736\/","title":{"rendered":"Staggering sum: US announces potential increase in military spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The US military budget could increase to $1.5 trillion following the midterm congressional elections. This was stated by Republican Senator Roger Wicker, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama\/28209219\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TASS<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Trump administration has proposed a significant increase in the national defense budget&mdash;to more than $1.5 trillion. If the president gets his way and if Congress agrees following the midterm elections, which will take place in three weeks, we will allocate $1.5 trillion&mdash;a staggering sum&mdash;for national defense,&rdquo; the lawmaker said while speaking at the Warsaw Security Forum.<\/p>\n<p>In April, the White House officially requested a record $1.5 trillion military budget from the US Congress for the 2027 fiscal year.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military budget could increase to $1.5 trillion following the midterm congressional elections. This was stated by Republican Senator Roger Wicker, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, TASS reports. &ldquo;The Trump administration has proposed a significant increase in the national defense budget&mdash;to more than $1.5 trillion. If the president gets his way and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":304727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304737,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304736\/revisions\/304737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}