According to @StockMKTNewz, President Trump said the U.S. military budget for 2027 should be $1.5 trillion rather than $1 trillion. Source: https://twitter.com/StockMKTNewz/status/2009012377514291286 Any move to that funding level would require Congressional authorization and appropriations via the annual National Defense Authorization Act and related spending bills, so the remark alone does not change funding. Sources: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10514; https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/section-9/ For trading, major U.S. defense primes such as LMT, RTX, NOC, GD, and HII are among the largest defense contractors by defense revenue, while crypto has shown higher correlation with U.S. equities since 2020, increasing BTC and ETH sensitivity to macro headlines. Sources: https://people.defensenews.com/top-100/2024/; https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2022/01/11/crypto-prices-move-more-in-sync-with-stocks-posing-new-risks