President Trump to Propose Historic Increase in Defense, Infrastructure Spending

“We have come up with a solution that really, really, I think, very good”, the president said of the not yet-released plan. “If you read the New York Times, if you read the New York Times, it’s-the intent is so evil and so bad”.

“Everybody used to say America never lost a war”, he said, adding, “Now we never win and don’t fight to win”.

It would substantially increase United States defence spending – already by far the highest in the world – although there were no details on how the extra funds would be spent. You know, one of the things we say in the south if a Girl Scout egged your house, would you buy cookies from her? They expect to pay for that increase by cutting an equivalent amount from nondefense discretionary spending-the part of the budget that includes major basic research funders.

President Trump will outline more of his plans during an address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday 28 February.

Royce said his panel would “thoroughly review” the budget request when Trump sends it to Congress. “Now with all of that being said, I just thought it would be better if I didn’t do the dinner”, Trump told Ainsley Earhardt, Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade.

“We’re going to do more with less”, President Trump said Monday of his “historic increase in defense spending”. The United States already has the world’s most powerful fighting force and it spends far more than any other country on defense.

The White House is sending Mr Trump’s proposal to federal departments this week as he gears up for budget negotiations with Congress that often take months to play out.

The main drivers of government spending are entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security and Trump has promised not to touch those programs.

Civilian agencies will see a $54 billion cut under the plan, “the largest proposed reduction since the early years of the Reagan administration”, budget director Mick Mulvaney said a February 27 White House press briefing.

The announcement marks the beginning of a process in which the OMB will coordinate with individual agencies to flesh out the plan.

The increase of about 10 percent for the Pentagon would fulfill a Trump campaign promise to build up the military. But with all eyes on healthcare, the budget’s details will be telling.

The White House is sending federal departments a budget proposal on Monday which is planned to be made public and sent to Congress in mid-March after cuts are negotiated.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said that the administration hopes to identify spending cuts that don’t harm agencies’ effectiveness too much, targeting “outdated and duplicative programs”.