트럼프 정부, 국방비 사상 최대증액한 2018년 예산안 제출키로
U.S. President Donald Trump has revealed his early budget plans for 2018.
He's seeking to boost defense spending by a staggering 54 billion U.S. dollars... with sweeping cuts in domestic spending and overseas aid to pay for it.
Kim Mok-yeon has more.
The White House announced on Monday that President Trump has proposed a 603 billion dollar defense budget plan for next year, a ten percent hike from the current level of spending.
Trump said his latest budget plan will propose "historic" increases in spending to bolster the country's "depleted military," and support law enforcement in an effort to reduce crime.
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"This budget will be a public safety and national security budget, very much based on those two with plenty of other things but very strong. And it will include a historic increase in defense spending to rebuild the depleted military of the United States of America at a time we most need it."
President Trump's proposal seeks to slash the added amount from non-defense spending budgets which officials say would likely be cuts to the State Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and other areas.
The announcement prompted conflicting,... but critical responses from Democratic and Republican politicians.
The Republican chairman of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee, Mac Thornberry, and Arizona Senator John McCain said Trump's proposed defense budget is still insufficient to counter the slew of threats facing the United States.
McCain,... a vocal critic of the president, said Trump's defense budget plan was a mere three percent higher than President Obama's budget which had left the military unready to confront threats.
Democratic leaders, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer,... said President Trump's plan "only helps the wealthy and special interests while putting further burdens on the middle class".
Kim Mok-yeon, Arirang News.
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