Congress has begun pushing back on the White House plan to cut the defense budget by 5 percent next year, and President Trump appeared to jump into the fray Monday by calling out U.S. spending on the military.

Trump tweeted this year’s $716 billion budget, which he touted and campaigned on, is “crazy” and part of a growing arms race with Russia and China.

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