{"id":262584,"date":"2024-05-20T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=262584"},"modified":"2025-01-10T15:05:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:05:50","slug":"can-the-u-s-afford-its-military-aid-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/05\/can-the-u-s-afford-its-military-aid-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the U.S. Afford Its Military Aid Promises?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"info-container\" class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-info-text\"><strong><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string bold\" dir=\"auto\">16 May 2024<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\">Joe Biden signed a $95 billion U.S. military aid package last April to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific region. The National Defense Authorization Act of 2024 authorized military spending of a record $886 billion. \u201cMost of that money will go to support US defense industries.&#8221; Lockheed Martin, RTX, General Dynamics, Boeing and Northrop Grumman had DoD contracts of more than $118 billion in 2022. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Can The U.S. Afford Its Military Aid Promises?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BlrhwfA4uUg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 May 2024 &#8211; Joe Biden signed a $95 billion U.S. military aid package last April to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific region. The NDAA of 2024 authorized military spending of a record $886 billion. \u201cMost of that money will go to support US defense industries.&#8221; Lockheed Martin, RTX, General Dynamics, Boeing and Northrop Grumman had DoD contracts of more than $118 billion in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1161,1104,232,2159,70,1594,1073],"class_list":["post-262584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-arms-industry","tag-arms-trade","tag-capitalism","tag-rogue-states","tag-usa","tag-war-economy","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262585,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262584\/revisions\/262585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}