It has just been announced ahead of Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress that the president plans to cut funding to the majority of other agencies in the government in order to boost the defense and national security budget by ten percent.
Congress has already approved $607 billion for defense, compared to $543 billion approved for non-defense discretionary funding. Social Security and Medicare have been spared from Trump’s new plan, but every other agency will see a 10% decrease to boost defense spending by another $54 billion.
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