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| President Donald Trump aims to increase the Pentagon’s budget by $54 billion, as part of a push to rebuild America’s “depleted military.” Trump also promised to rein in domestic spending and do more with less. | President Donald Trump aims to increase the Pentagon’s budget by $54 billion, as part of a push to rebuild America’s “depleted military.” Trump also promised to rein in domestic spending and do more with less. |
| Details of the new budget will be unveiled sometime in March, but the president is expected to preview portions of it during Tuesday’s night address to Congress. | Details of the new budget will be unveiled sometime in March, but the president is expected to preview portions of it during Tuesday’s night address to Congress. |
| In a Monday meeting with governors at the White House, Trump said the budget will be heavy on “public safety and national security” and feature a “historic increase of defense spending to rebuild the depleted military.” | In a Monday meeting with governors at the White House, Trump said the budget will be heavy on “public safety and national security” and feature a “historic increase of defense spending to rebuild the depleted military.” |
| "We're going to do more with less,” Trump said, “and make the government lean and accountable." | "We're going to do more with less,” Trump said, “and make the government lean and accountable." |
| The Obama administration requested $582.7 billion to fund the Department of Defense in fiscal year 2017, including the $58.8 billion for the warfighting “overseas contingency operations” fund. | The Obama administration requested $582.7 billion to fund the Department of Defense in fiscal year 2017, including the $58.8 billion for the warfighting “overseas contingency operations” fund. |
| Among the other priorities he brought up were repealing and replacing Obamacare, expediting environmental reviews, and investing in the crumbling US infrastructure. | |
| Trump’s budget outline will not include any changes to entitlement spending such as Medicare and Medicaid, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told Fox News on Sunday.“We are not touching those now. So don’t expect to see that as part of this budget,” he said. | |
| Trump’s budget efforts have been frustrated by the slow pace of Senate confirmations for his Cabinet officials. Mnuchin himself was only confirmed on February 13, while Trump’s pick to head the Office of Management and Budget, Mick Mulvaney, received approval on February 16. | |
| The president’s critics have pointed out that rebuilding the infrastructure, overhauling healthcare, beefing up the military and building the border wall simply won’t be possible without running up a massive deficit. |