Trump says US to help defense contractors to boost military equipment production

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Source: Reuters

July 8, 2025 12:55 PM EDT Updated 6 hours ago


WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the United States would help defense contractors to boost production of military equipment.

"We make the best military equipment by far... That's why everybody wants to buy our equipment and that's why we're going to step up these contractors now that make it," Trump said during a meeting with cabinet officials at the White House.


"They're brilliant, but they make it too slow and we have to step them up and let them make it at a much higher rate," he said.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-us-help-defense-contractors-boost-military-equipment-production-2025-07-08/

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Short article at post time.

[dutch777]

1. Yeah, I have to get a job....working in ag will be my 'go to' Plan A. Another genius appointee.

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2. Not even a thought for a plan

Pulled this medicaid doozy out of there asses when they realized, hey Gom, we ain’t got no one to harvest produce? What we gonna do? Put them Medicaid cheats to work in the fields. Who’s gonna pick up all the dead bodies under the scorching summer sun? We’ll figure something out at the time. It’s obvious we know some shit. Just keep on making Merka Grate!

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3. Rearmament keeps the profits rolling

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4. The ol' Military Industrial Complex

The only problem with his logic is that Putin will Forbid Trump from selling any to any NATO countries.....which are all the buyers......

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5. For ICE...not for Ukraine.

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6. A lot of that money is stolen from Medicaid.

[Prairie Gates]

7. Communist command economy

Picking winners and losers.

The five-year plan.

Must accelerate production.

Glorious defense factory workers have increased throughput!


Etc.

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8. He had to do something to placate

the Military Industrial Complex of Corporations after the said he wasn't going to allow arms sales to anyone else, especially Ukraine....

It cost him a bundle....60 Billion???? to make the U.S. farmers happy for having knifed them in the backs on exports during his first term.......

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. Maddow Blog-Agriculture secretary suggests Medicaid recipients can replace immigrants as farmworkers

If the Trump administration is counting on Americans on Medicaid replacing immigrants on farms, officials should probably start working on a Plan B.

Agriculture secretary suggests Medicaid recipients can replace immigrants as farmworkers.
If the Trump administration is counting on Americans on Medicaid replacing immigrants on farms, officials should probably start working on a Plan B.
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— hateGOP (@hategop.bsky.social) 2025-07-08T21:36:08.484Z

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/agriculture-secretary-suggests-medicaid-recipients-can-replace-immigra-rcna217572

Soon after, Team Trump reversed course, and then reversed course yet again. As recently as last week, the president talked about developing a temporary pass for immigrants who work on farms, which was the opposite of what his “border czar” said a week earlier.

This week, as Reuters reported, the moving target moved again:

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Tuesday that there will be ‘no amnesty’ for agricultural workers from the Trump administration’s efforts to deport all immigrants in the country illegally. The farm sector has warned that mass deportation of farm workers would disrupt the U.S. food supply.

To be sure, the Cabinet secretary’s comments were newsworthy, though if recent history is any guide, a prominent White House official, including possibly Donald Trump himself, will contradict Rollins very soon.

But of particular interest was something else the agriculture secretary said.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3lthhwchvtw2h

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“I can’t emphasize this enough,” Rollins said. “There will be no amnesty; the mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way; and we move the workforce toward automation and 100% American participation, which with 34 million able-bodied adults on Medicaid, we should be able to do fairly quickly.”

In other words, as the agriculture secretary sees it, there’s no need for concern about farmers losing out on immigrant labor because those workers can be replaced thanks to “automation” and Medicaid beneficiaries......

But what I find myself stuck on is Rollins’ quote in the context of the Republicans’ domestic policy megabill. GOP policymakers approved sweeping and unprecedented cuts to Medicaid, arguing that Americans who lose coverage can simply get jobs that offer health insurance.

It’s against this backdrop that the secretary of agriculture suggested that Medicaid beneficiaries — whose coverage is at risk — can replace immigrants as farmworkers, brushing past the inconvenient fact that farmworkers tend not to get health care coverage.

All of which is to say, if the administration is counting on Americans on Medicaid replacing immigrants on farms, officials should probably start working on a Plan B.