BIG WEEK, BIG PLANS: This is a big week for President Trump’s national security agenda. A draft plan to “obliterate” ISIS is due on his desk, and his initial budget guidance is going out to federal agencies with the goal of fulfilling his pledge rebuild the U.S. military with massive increases in defense spending.
The New York Times, quoting four unnamed senior administration officials, reported yesterday that Trump will send instructions to agencies today to begin drafting a budget for fiscal 2018 that includes “sharp increases in Defense Department spending and drastic enough cuts to domestic agencies that he can keep his promise to leave Social Security and Medicare alone.” The Times says “reductions of tens of billions of dollars are expected to come from the Environmental Protection Agency and the State Department.”
