Trump seeks massive $1.5tn for defence alongside cuts in domestic spending
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The president's new budget would cut non-defence spending by 10%, partly by slashing domestic programmes.
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Trump seeks massive $1.5tn for defence alongside cuts in domestic spending 14 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Bernd Debusmann Jr White House reporter The White House is asking Congress to boost the US defence budget to $1.5tn (£1.1tn), a sweeping rise that would mark the largest expansion in military spending since the Second World War. It includes funding for the Trump administration's proposed Golden Dome missile defence system, as well as a boost in domestic production of naval vessels, including new Trump-class battleships . The administration said it would pair the proposed increase with a call for cuts across domestic agencies, including eliminating some climate, housing, and education programmes. The request, which will need to be approved by the US Congress, is separate from the $200bn that the Pentagon sought for the war in Iran. A summary of the budget posted online notes that the cuts will be achieved by "reducing or eliminating woke, weaponised and wasteful programmes, and by returning local responsibilities to their respective governments". President Donald Trump has long signalled a desire to increase the defence budget and boost domestic defence manufacturing. At a private event at the White House earlier this week - which was caught on camera - Trump said that military spending should be a national priority going forward. "It's not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all of these individual things, they can do it on a state basis," the president said, adding that the focus should be on "military protection." Non-defence spending in the proposed budget has fallen by 10%, or about $73bn. Trump's proposed budget would mark a 42% increase over the previous fiscal year, totalling $445bn. Of the total, approximately $1.1tn would be in discretionary spending for the Pentagon, the highest on record. Another $350bn - specifically for the industrial defence base - would come from a process known as budget reconciliat...
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