President Donald Trump’s proposed military parade has a potential date and location: Veterans Day in Washington.
But there’s still the question of how it will be paid for.
“When we talk about the options — the composition, the theme, the date, the location, the associated costs — all those are being looked at as part of the options that are being created,” said Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Rob Manning. “The funding stream is a line that they [parade planners] would have to provide details on.
”No money was allocated for a parade in the fiscal 2019 budget, and none was previously identified in the fiscal 2018 budget, which ends Sept. 30, six weeks before the planned parade date.
The White House budget office has estimated that the parade options Trump is considering would cost between $10 million and $30 million.
Trump also said this:
“But the generals would love to do it, I can tell you, and so would I,” Trump said on Fox News.
But when asked about that:
On Monday Pentagon reporters asked which generals had indicated they would want a parade; Manning said he did not know.
“I don’t know what specific generals told him that,” Manning said.
I'm going to guess that none of them told him that, and that he just made that up like he makes everything else up.
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