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Trump Seeks Record Pentagon Budget Eclipsing Spending by Ronald Reagan & George W. Bush

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March 1, 2017

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President Trump has proposed increasing the military budget to just over $600 billiona 10 percent increasewhile deeply slashing the budgets of other agencies, likely including the Environmental Protection Agency and the State Department. Speaking to a joint session of Congress, Trump said, "I am sending the Congress a budget that rebuilds the military, eliminates the defense sequester and calls for one of the largest increases in national defense spending in American history."

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