<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="center">President Donald Trump is introducing an increase of $54 billion to the defense budget, while imposing cuts to social programs like the foreign aid.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The defense budget would be increased by 10% and Trump is planning on requesting a supplementary $30 billion for military spending in 2017.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">White House officials made the announcement while on a call with reporters.  ;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Right after the phone call, Trump discussed the move while addressing the nation&rsquo;s governors at the White House. ;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">&ldquo;This budget will be a public safety and national security budget,&rdquo; said Trump. He also said the introduced plan will include a &ldquo;historic increase in defense spending to rebuild the depleted military.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Trump said the country needed to be better prepared to deter war, but also be able to &ldquo;finish things&rdquo; when needed.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got to win or don&rsquo;t fight it at all,&rdquo; ;said Trump.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">White House budget director Mick Mulvaney ;said the increase in defense budget of $603 billion is &ldquo;one of the largest increases in history&rdquo; and the non-defense spending cut of $54 billion would be &ldquo;the largest proposed reduction since the early years of the Reagan administration.&rdquo;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So where will the administration be pulling funds from?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">&ldquo;It reduces money that we give to other nations. It reduces duplicative programs. And it eliminates programs that simply don&#8217;t work,&rdquo; said Mulvaney, while not going into too much detail.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On his campaign trail, Trump repeatedly promised to build up the military.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">&#8220;The president and his Cabinet are working collaboratively to create a budget that keeps the president&#8217;s promises to secure the country and restore fiscal sanity to how we spend American taxpayers&#8217; money,&#8221; said John Czwartacki, Office of Management and Budget spokesman. ;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This looks like the beginning of doing just that, but he is bound to get pushback from Democrats.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">&ldquo;Tentative proposals for the 2018 budget year that begins Oct. 1 are being sent to agencies, which will have a chance to propose changes to the cuts as part of a longstanding tradition at the budget office,&rdquo; writes <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Newsmax. </em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">&ldquo;Trump&#8217;s budget, once finalized and sent to Congress in mid-March, is sure to set off a huge Washington battle. Democrats and some Republicans are certain to resist the cuts to domestic agencies, and any legislation to implement them would have to overcome a filibuster threat by Senate Democrats. A government shutdown is a real possibility.&rdquo;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">However, the proposed budget change won&rsquo;t impact Social Security or Medicare programs, another promise Trump made during his campaign.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">&#8220;We will be substantially upgrading all of our military, all of our military, offensive, defensive, everything, bigger and better and stronger than ever before,&#8221; said Trump.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So far Trump has been vague about which departments the additional money go to, but there has been some speculation.  ;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">&ldquo;The Pentagon is due for a huge boost, as Trump promised during the campaign. But many nondefense agencies and foreign aid programs are facing cuts, including at the State Department. The specific numbers aren&#8217;t final and agencies will have a chance to argue against the cuts as part of a longstanding tradition at the budget office,&rdquo; writes <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fox News.</em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">&ldquo;Left unclear is how such a military increase would square with the requirements of &ldquo;sequestration,&rdquo; the mandatory across-the-board spending caps agreed to by Congress and the Obama administration. ;At the same time, defense hawks on Capitol Hill questioned whether Trump&rsquo;s proposed boost &ndash; which would seek a fiscal 2018 defense budget of $603 billion &ndash; would be enough.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Even with the little details known, Democrats are already up in arms about which programs will lose funding. ;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">&ldquo;A cut this steep almost certainly means cuts to agencies that protect consumers from Wall Street excess and protect clean air and water,&rdquo; said Charles E. Schumer, Senate Minority Leader (D-N.Y.) ; ;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) ;expressed similar concerns.  ;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">&ldquo;A $54 ;billion cut will do far-reaching and long-lasting damage to our ability to meet the needs of the American people and win the jobs of the future,&rdquo; said Pelosi in a statement. &ldquo;The President is surrendering America&rsquo;s leadership in innovation, education, science and clean energy.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Some believe that the increase in military budget is not enough and will also project sizable deficits.  ;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But this is all assumptions at this point. Trump will be releasing his final budget proposal in mid-March.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">&ldquo;The March release is also expected to include an immediate infusion of cash for the Pentagon that&#8217;s expected to register about $20 billion or so and contain the first wave of funding for Trump&#8217;s promised border wall and other initiatives like hiring immigration agents,&rdquo; writes <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fox News.</em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Author&rsquo;s note: </strong>Trump is showing that again he is keeping his campaign trail promises. With threats coming from ISIS, North Korea, etc &ndash; we should not only ramp up our defense for the country&rsquo;s protection, but also to make a statement. It looks like Trump is planning to make America strong again.</p>
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