As Donald Trump’s federal cuts fuel poverty and death at home and across the world, the president and his administration continue to find ways to funnel American tax dollars to his family.

The latest example? The Air Force reportedly will hand money to a drone company backed by the president’s two oldest sons. According to Bloomberg:

The US Air Force agreed to buy an undisclosed number of interceptor drones from a company backed by President Donald Trump’s sons, according to the firm, deepening the military’s ties to defense contractors linked to the first family as the US war with Iran enters its third month.

The West Palm Beach-based company, Powerus, will sell the drones to the Pentagon following a demonstration at a facility in Arizona, according to Brett Velicovich, the company’s co-founder and president.

The Defense Department previously invited an Israeli drone company in which Eric Trump invests to participate in its push to buy more than $1 billion in drones.

How’s that for perverse incentives?

The president — who campaigned on a vow not to start any new wars — has launched a deeply unpopular, deadly and economically destructive war with Iran, with no clear end in sight.

In fact, Trump hasn’t even shown much interest in ending it. And one is certainly left to wonder whether this posture has anything to do with the fact that Eric and Donald Trump Jr. are sinking their teeth into the war economy — and positioning themselves to line their pockets with American taxpayer money.

What’s more, their dad is intent on procuring more money that could head their way, as evidenced by the president asking Congress to authorize a historic $1.5 trillion military budget that would dwarf previous defense spending, which already was demonstrably bloated.

What we have here is a brazenly unethical scenario befitting a kleptocratic regime.

And as Trump’s administration sends money to companies backed by his sons, effectively deepening their investment in the war economy, Americans would do well to remember Trump’s recent comments about it supposedly being “not possible” for the federal government to fund Medicare, Medicaid and child care.

“It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things,” Trump baselessly claimed during an Easter luncheon at the White House. “They can do it on a state basis; you can’t do it on a federal. We have to take care of one thing: military protection. We have to guard the country.”

The quote hits different when you realize what he’s arguing for is effectively synonymous with “paying my adult sons.”

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