President Trump will ask for a Pentagon budget of $718 billion for 2020, part of an overall $750 billion request for defense, two US officials tell CNN
The figure includes both the Pentagon budget as well as the nuclear weapons elements of the Energy Department budget.The Pentagon request represents an increase of 4.7% over this year's budget.However, given the fact that the Democrats control the House of Representatives, it's unclear whether the budget proposal can win congressional approval.
"You're only doing that because I gave you the greatest and biggest budget in our history," Trump told a crowd at the Pentagon in January."I've now done it two times, and I hate to tell the rest of the world, but I'm about to do it three times," he added, strongly suggesting that he would provide another defense spending boost.
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