Trump proposes record-breaking defense spending in budget request
The Washington Post • • nation
Key Points:
- President Donald Trump requested a $1.5 trillion defense budget for the next fiscal year, marking the largest Pentagon budget in U.S. history.
- The proposal includes approximately $73 billion in cuts to nondefense federal spending.
- Nondefense cuts target areas such as health research, K-12 and higher education, renewable energy and climate grants, low-income housing energy programs, and community development block grants.
- These reductions amount to a 10 percent decrease from the current fiscal year's nondefense spending.
