Democrats rebuke White House’s ‘bleak and unacceptable’ view of priorities after 10% cuts proposed to other programs
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Defense spending would surge to its highest level in decades under a budget proposal put forward by the Trump administration on Friday, while other government programs would face cuts totaling 10%.
The document prepared by the White House office of management and budget (OMB) is a starting point for negotiations that will probably occupy Congress’s appropriators in the coming months, and are unlikely to be enacted in full.
But it nonetheless serves as a signal of Donald Trump’s priorities, with the US military embroiled in a conflict with Iran that has spread across the Middle East, as his Republican allies looking to defend majorities in the Senate and House of Representatives ahead of November’s midterm elections.
