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

President Trump has proposed increasing the military budget to just over $600 billion-a 10 percent increase-while 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."