Senate hit over priorities as budget deal proposes military spending hike

Activists question how US can justify spending even more on defense ‘when we can’t manage to turn the lights on in Puerto Rico’

Donald Trump’s new idea for a grand military parade has been met with an outcry from critics, who warn that in addition to its strong despotic whiff, such a stunt would waste millions of taxpayer dollars.

But the Pentagon might soon find itself with more flexibility to satisfy that presidential whim and more, if a budget deal expected to be struck in the Senate this week goes through.

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