Trump bails on White House Correspondents’ Dinner

The White House sent draft budget plans to agency heads Monday, detailing billions of dollars in cuts to a wide range of federal programs.

It doesn’t seem to occur to Trump that the US may not know how to win certain kinds of wars.

He has promised to build a wall on the Mexican border, deport unauthorised immigrants and wipe extremists off the “face of the earth”.

The amounts that Trump is proposing to add to the Pentagon budget and trim elsewhere are not yet publicly known. Spending has declined since the wars were at their peak in 2010, but US military spending in 2015 remains at 190 percent of what it was before 9/11, according to data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, or SIPRI, a leading tracker of weapons and defense spending.

“I have great respect for the press and reporters and the whole profession”, Trump said mere days after journalists from a number of outlets were reportedly banned from attending last Friday’s press briefing.

US President Donald Trump is seeking a historic rise of $54 billion in the military budget for the next fiscal year, arguing that this measure follows his promise “to keep the Americans safe”.

During a “Fox & Friends” interview that aired Tuesday, President Trump defended his performance in office but acknowledged some snags in how his policies are promoted.

“When you see these reductions, you’ll be able to tie it back to a speech the president gave or something the president had said previously”.

The biggest recipient of United States foreign aid is Israel, according to a recent analysis by the Washington Post.

Democrats and a few Republicans will likely resist vigorously such deep cuts to domestic programmes, meaning Trump’s budget proposal could be the scene of a divisive political battle reminiscent of the 2013 USA federal government shutdown.

The event may also evoke dark memories for Trump, who was brutally mocked at the 2011 dinner by President Barack Obama and the late-night host Seth Meyers, both of whom skewered the real estate developer for his seemingly far-fetched political aspirations.

Mr Katz, who is now with the German Marshall Fund, said foreign assistance was vital for everything from preventing pandemics to developing economies that eventually become trade partners.