Another nonpartisan watchdog, the Taxpayers for Common Sense, noted that since President Trump took office in 2025, the national debt has increased by $2.8 trillion, and taxpayers are now paying nearly $1 trillion annually just to service that debt. “This budget request does nothing to improve the nation’s fiscal trajectory,” the group said. “In fact, it moves us further in the wrong direction.”

The budget will set the U.S. on a “perilous fiscal path,” the group further argued, calling the $1.5 trillion Pentagon spending spree “a major driver of this dangerous fiscal trajectory.” With the administration seeking much of the funding boost through the reconciliation process, the group argues that it amounts to “handing the Pentagon an unaccountable slush fund.”