Trump Wants To Increase Military Spending by $113 Billion
President Donald Trump has unveiled his budget request for the next fiscal year. The outline, which is unlikely to be enacted, recommends cuts to many agencies and programs. But it also wants a 13 percent increase for the Pentagon—among other things, to fund the F-47 Next Generation Air Dominance platform, which the White House calls the “most advanced, capable, and lethal aircraft ever built.”
Trump’s budget request would cost taxpayers $1.613 trillion—the same amount as last year’s budget. The money would not go to the same places, though. Under the new proposal, only four arms of the government would receive more money than they did in fiscal year 2025: an additional $42.3 billion for the Department of Homeland Security (a nearly 65 percent increas
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