Trump's budget will include $750B for defense, money for border wall
by Allison Elyse Gualtieri
| March 09, 2019 11:30 AM
President Trump plans to include a significant request for border wall funding in his budget, according to a new report.
The Associated Press reported that the White House budget that will be released next week will include the request, along with $750 billion in defense spending and cuts to non-defense discretionary spending by 5 percent that will keep the budget under strict statutory spending caps.
Trump had said in October that he would request $700 billion for defense, $16 billion less than his previous budget, and asked Cabinet members to cut their budgets by 5 percent. However, a showdown with congressional Democrats in December over more than $5 billion in appropriations for border security, including a wall, led to the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history.
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