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" The White House said on Monday Donald Trump’s upcoming budget will propose a whopping $54bn increase in defense spending and impose corresponding cuts to domestic programs and foreign aid.
White House budget officials outlined the information during a telephone call with reporters given on condition of anonymity, a day before Trump’s first speech to Congress and as budget proposals were being sent out to government departments.
The budget officials on the call ignored requests to put the briefing on the record, even though Trump, whose relations with mainstream press outlets has deteriorated badly around anonymously sourced stories reporting among other things an FBI investigation into alleged contacts between Trump aides and Russian intelligence, decried on Friday the use of anonymous sources by the media.
Trump’s defense budget and spending levels for domestic agency operating budgets will be revealed in a partial submission to Congress next month, with proposals on taxes and other programs coming later.
The approximately 10% increase for the Pentagon would fulfil a Trump campaign promise to build up the military. One official said there will be a reduction in foreign aid and that most domestic agencies will face cuts.
On Saturday the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, offered the conservative CPAC conference in Maryland a hint of such cuts, saying that as well as seeking to slash regulations and dismantle Obama-era executive orders, he would be reviewing the budget and structure of the agency. "
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/27/trumps-budget-54-billion-increase-defense-spending?CMP=edit_2221
White House budget officials outlined the information during a telephone call with reporters given on condition of anonymity, a day before Trump’s first speech to Congress and as budget proposals were being sent out to government departments.
The budget officials on the call ignored requests to put the briefing on the record, even though Trump, whose relations with mainstream press outlets has deteriorated badly around anonymously sourced stories reporting among other things an FBI investigation into alleged contacts between Trump aides and Russian intelligence, decried on Friday the use of anonymous sources by the media.
Trump’s defense budget and spending levels for domestic agency operating budgets will be revealed in a partial submission to Congress next month, with proposals on taxes and other programs coming later.
The approximately 10% increase for the Pentagon would fulfil a Trump campaign promise to build up the military. One official said there will be a reduction in foreign aid and that most domestic agencies will face cuts.
On Saturday the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, offered the conservative CPAC conference in Maryland a hint of such cuts, saying that as well as seeking to slash regulations and dismantle Obama-era executive orders, he would be reviewing the budget and structure of the agency. "
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/27/trumps-budget-54-billion-increase-defense-spending?CMP=edit_2221