President Trump to Call for Increase in Military Spending

DONALD Trump has defended his decision not to attend the White House Correspondents’ dinner, saying he does not want to be a “hypocrite”. Roughly a quarter of the cash may be spent by the Israelis on military equipment, including arms, with the stipulation that American defense contractors benefit from the sales.

Boccia said Congress and the administration must demonstrate a willingness to cut programs in order to build credibility for entitlement reform.

In short, Rubel sees little chance of success on Trump’s defense request as it now stands.

“That is definitely dead on arrival”, Sen.

The OMB – headed by former House lawmaker Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., who was a spending hawk in Congress – will then begin drafting an official request for fiscal 2018 and submit it to Congress in the coming weeks.

Each agency will respond with arguments for what it thinks should be its budget, and ultimately it is up to Congress to vote on federal spending.

“We are going to spend a lot more money on military…”

“What you see is an increase in defense, an increase in border security, an increase enforcing laws that are on the book”.

The amounts that Trump is proposing to add to the Pentagon budget and trim elsewhere are not yet publicly known. “The mandatory budget is huge and most of the health and retirement parts are growing rapidly”, he said.

Medicare and Social Security will be spared from cuts, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said last week.

What specific cuts Trump is proposing. The aid reduction, in tandem with the 10 percent increase in defense spending, echoes Trump’s campaign promise.

“We’re going to do more with less”, President Trump said Monday of his “historic increase in defense spending”.

But others raised questions about the impact of planned cuts at the State Department and the Environmental Protection Agency. The administration hopes to have a finalized budget blueprint to Congress by March 16 and a full budget proposal in May.

Where the extra defense spending would go.

The Office of Budget and Management typically tries to balance domestic and national security spending.

The upcoming submission covers the budget year starting on October 1.

In January, EPA transition team head Myron Ebell indicated the Trump budget could cut the EPA’s $8 billion in funding by $1 billion and reduce the 15,000-person workforce to about 5,000 nationwide.

Defense Secretary James Mattis outlined in a memo released February 1 that his first priority will be to focus on military readiness, not modernization initiatives.

Whether the Pentagon specifically lobbied for more money.

“We’re gonna get involved in negotiating”, the president said.