Trump Tells Congress How He Plans to Give Military Largest Budget Ever
April 3, 2026
The New Republic
President Trump is seeking the largest military budget in this country’s modern history for 2027, even as a multitude of domestic issues—from health care, to housing, to the general cost of living—continue to persist. The White House on Friday requested 1.5 trillion from Congress, which would amount to a 40 percent increase from what the Pentagon spent this fiscal year.
The budget would come at the expense of the social safety net, with the administration estimating at least 73 billion in cuts across domestic programs. This comes just days after Trump told his supporters at a private lunch that “it’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things.”This is a developing story.
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