Trump’s Budget Blueprint Favors Defense Expenditures, Public Safety

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It is often said that the fiscal budget blueprints outline a sitting president’s true policy priorities, and it will not be surprising to many Trump supporters that the Trump Administration’s budget blueprint is in lock-step with the promises Trump made as a candidate on the campaign trail, protecting major entitlements like Medicare and Social Security.

Constructing these fiscal budgets is one of the most important projects overseen by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). When the Trump Administration nominated Mick Mulvaney for OMB Director, Sen. John McCain was the only Republican to adamantly oppose him on the basis that he deemed Mulvaney bad for defense spending.

The budget Trump and Mulvaney are proposing according to the announcement would boost defense and security spending by approximately $54 billion, and it would pay the majority of this via budget cuts from non-defense programs. The Obama Administration’s budget held defense spending around $549 billion and non-defense discretionary spending at $516 billion. The Trump Administration now prepares to increase defense spending to $603 billion while decreasing non-defense discretionary spending to $462 billion, according to Mick Mulvaney.