Trump pledges 'billions' increase in missile defense spending
By: Aaron Mehta 4 days ago
WASHINGTON ― U.S. President Donald Trump has pledged to increase defense spending by “billions of dollars,” while hinting that a plan to increase spending on missile defense may come as soon as next week.
Speaking to reporters Thursday while in New Jersey, Trump said: “We are going to be increasing our budget by many billions of dollars because of North Korea, and other reasons having to do with the anti-missile. We are going to be increasing our budget by many billions of dollars,” adding that “we’ll probably be able to report that over the next week.”
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