President Trump will seek to balance the federal budget partly by cutting congressional appropriations, other than defense, by 2 percent every year.

The “two-penny plan,” as Office and Management Budget Director Mick Mulvaney described it to reporters Monday, would cut $1.4 trillion in nondefense spending out of $3.6 trillion in total cuts over 10 years, limiting that category of government spending to historically low levels.

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