Trump budget will seek funds for border wall, Space Force

[DonViejo]

Source: ABC News



By LISA MASCARO, AP CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON — Mar 8, 2019, 10:56 PM ET

President Donald Trump will be making a significant request for border wall funds and seeking money to stand up Space Force as a new branch of the military in the White House budget being released next week, an administration official said Friday.

For the first time, Trump plans to stick with the strict spending caps imposed years ago, even though lawmakers have largely avoided them with new budget deals. That will likely trigger a showdown with Congress. The official said the president's plan promises to balance the budget in 15 years.

Trump will seek $750 billion for defense, a boost for the military, while cutting non-defense discretionary spending by 5 percent, said the official, who was unauthorized to discuss the document ahead of its release and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Budgets are mainly seen as blueprints for White House priorities. But they are often panned on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers craft the appropriation bills that eventually fund the government, if the president signs them into law.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-budget-seek-funds-border-wall-space-force-61570398

[getagrip_already]

1. yawn......

Pelosi will snap to and get right on your priorities. not.

Repeat after me: All spending bills start in the house. Not much chance those will be priorities this year.

[Scarsdale]

2. Also, remember that

$100 million for Ivanka's crusade to empower women!! Most of that will disappear into her overseas accounts, no doubt, or for lawyer fees.

[videohead5]

3. And it's...

DOA

[groundloop]

4. The Tiny Space Farce

Yeah, right.... balance the budget in 15 years. Not with the huge cuts to corporate and high earner taxes that were just enacted. What he's really saying is that he wants to cut all service and infrastructure spending and let America crumble while the rich eat caviar aboard their yachts which were paid for by working Americans.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Space Cadet Bone Spurs is hoping for a parade on new holiday July 4 along his Vanity Wall. . . . nt

[B Stieg]

6. Space Wall!

Combine the two and save big $. Plus, it's the only way to be sure nobody can get in.

[Canoe52]

7. Great idea, it'll keep all the aliens out!

[Initech]

11. And the Martians will pay for it!

[Canoe52]

12. Perfect!

[yaesu]

10. yep

[bluestarone]

8. This Tells me they

Aren't counting much on their "EMERGENCY DECLARATION"!

[jmowreader]

9. There's an easy way to fix this

Give Trump everything he wants IF he agrees to reinstate the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 with the brackets adjusted for inflation.

[Andy Dzhubois]

13. Good Luck with That, Donnie Dorko!

[bitterross]

14. It's DOA. Nancy will take care of that. As she should.

With a Democratic House, his budget isn't worth the paper on which hit is printed. It's a useless document. Aside from pointing out Trump and the Trump Party (formerly known as the GOP) have all the WRONG priorities for the country it's meaningless

[StTimofEdenRoc]

15. If we get blackmailed into some wall funding, require it be spent in TX, to cause trouble for him.

[DirtEdonE]

16. trump is an idea man lofl

Yeah. trump is an idea man. He has ideas all day long. He can't control them.

[SergeStorms]

17. Space Force.

Yet another agency Trump will refuse to listen to. What's the purpose? Trump knows more than anyone else in the world about space already. I'm sure he can calculate everything out in his head. There's no need for a Space Force.

[Beartracks]

18. Two yuuge dumb boondoggles. n/t

[Xolodno]

19. Why did I read the title as...

...Space Farce?

[Eugene]

20. In budget, Trump to ask Congress for $8.6 billion for border wall

Source: Reuters

POLITICS MARCH 10, 2019 / 7:16 AM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO

Exclusive: In budget, Trump to ask Congress for $8.6 billion for border wall

Roberta Rampton
5 MIN READ

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Monday will ask the U.S. Congress for an additional $8.6 billion to help pay for the wall he promised to build on the southern border with Mexico to combat illegal immigration and drug trafficking, officials familiar with his 2020 budget request told Reuters.

The demand is more than six times what Congress allocated for border projects in each of the past two fiscal years, and 6 percent more than Trump has corralled by invoking emergency powers this year.

Democrats, who oppose the wall as unnecessary and immoral, control the U.S. House of Representatives, making it unlikely the Republican president’s request will win congressional passage. Republicans control the Senate.

The proposal comes on the heels of a bruising battle with Congress over wall funding that resulted in a five-week partial federal government shutdown that ended in January, and could touch off a sequel just ahead of a trifecta of ominous fiscal deadlines looming this fall.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-budget-wall-exclusive/exclusive-in-budget-trump-to-ask-congress-for-8-6-billion-for-border-wall-idUSKBN1QR0CW