great-news
Explanation
This is a single-panel comic (with a caption) that features a scientist-type character at a podium cheerfully announcing: "Great news, everyone! Thanks to technology, we have eliminated poverty, disease, and all maladies of aging!" The caption below reads: "At last, the federal budget could go entirely to warfare."
The joke is a darkly cynical commentary on government spending priorities. The comic suggests that the only reason governments spend money on healthcare, social safety nets, and medical research is because they have to -- not because they want to. If all those problems were magically solved, the "great news" would simply mean that the entire budget could be redirected to military spending. It satirizes the idea that war and military dominance are the true priorities of governments, with social spending being merely an obligatory distraction. The scientist's cheerful delivery makes the dark punchline even more effective through tonal contrast.