Trump’s Military Spending Goals Will Be Tough to Meet – Here’s Why

The chunk of the federal budget that includes most of the USA government’s spending on basic science would shrink by 10.5% in 2018 under a plan outlined today by President Donald Trump and administration officials.

The President announced plans to boost military spending as the administration begins notifying federal agencies of his priorities. Previous WHCA Dinners have featured particularly biting sets from the likes of Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and Joel McHale.

Trump continued: “You never know what’s exactly happening behind the scenes …”

Several media outlets will also not be attending.

Trump attended the event in the past, which became the subject of many jokes made by former US President Barack Obama in last year’s gala. The action follows protests that erupted at airports in response to the Trump administration’s travel ban, which closed the United States borders to people from seven predominantly Muslim countries.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, speaking on Fox News earlier on Sunday, said Trump’s budget would not seek cuts in federal social programs such as Social Security and Medicare.

A senior budget official told the New York Times that us foreign aid will nearly certainly be slashed, even though nonmilitary aid to foreign countries makes up less than 1 percent of the federal budget and is often used to combat starvation, disease, and poverty in poor and developing countries.

Also on Monday, an anonymous White House official confirmed to reporters during a conference call that the White House was seeking to increase defense spending by a massive $54 billion – a roughly 10 percent increase.

Neither the White House nor the Department of Homeland Security immediately responded to TPM’s requests for comment. You said you personally get along with him.

Trump “didn’t introduce the budget to try and make Congress happy”, Mulvaney said.

“We’re going to start spending on infrastructure big”, he said.

Keeping up his sharp criticism of the media, Trump tweeted overnight, “fake news media knowingly doesn’t tell the truth”. But Trump has already been firing plenty of shots at the White House press corps, particularly CNN. “Presidents are expected to be self-deprecating, which Mr Trump is decidedly not”, The New York Times said.