$52.3 Defense Budget-What Can You Buy for This??
President Trump unveiled a partial $1.07 trillion budget blueprint on Thursday that cut overall discretionary spending by $2.7 billion but increased defense spending by $52.3 billion. He accomplished this by slashing budgets in other departments, including Health and Human Services, the State department (both of which lost the most funding in dollars) and the Environmental Protection Agency (which lost the largest percentage of its funding). Several agencies saw their funding cut entirely, including the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
United States already spends far more than the rest of the world on its military (at $56 billion, the United Kingdom’s entire military budget for 2015 was slightly more than Trump’s proposed increase alone) despite all of Trump’s campaign rhetoric about how the Obama administration decimated the “very weak” military.
United States already spends far more than the rest of the world on its military (at $56 billion, the United Kingdom’s entire military budget for 2015 was slightly more than Trump’s proposed increase alone) despite all of Trump’s campaign rhetoric about how the Obama administration decimated the “very weak” military.
By Sara Morrison
vocativ.com
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