{"id":45315,"date":"2026-04-04T12:35:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=45315"},"modified":"2026-04-04T12:35:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:50:45","slug":"trump-budget-seeks-1-5t-in-defense-spending-alongside-cuts-in-domestic-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/trump-budget-seeks-1-5t-in-defense-spending-alongside-cuts-in-domestic-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump budget seeks $1.5T in defense spending alongside cuts in domestic programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>President Donald Trump has proposed boosting defense spending to $1.5 trillion in his 2027 budget released Friday, the largest such request in decades, reflecting his emphasis on U.S. military investments over domestic programs.<\/p>\n<p>The sizable increase for the Pentagon, some 44%, had been telegraphed by the Republican president even before the U.S.-led war against Iran. The president\u2019s plan would also reduce spending on non-defense programs by 10%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump promised to reinvest in America\u2019s national security infrastructure, to make sure our nation is safe in a dangerous world,\u201d wrote Budget Director Russell Vought.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s annual budget is considered a reflection of the administration\u2019s values and does not carry the force of law. The massive document typically highlights an administration\u2019s priorities, but Congress, which handles federal spending issues, is free to reject it and often does.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s White House document is intended to provide a road map from the president to Congress as lawmakers build their own budgets and annual appropriations bills to keep the government funded. Vought spoke to House GOP lawmakers on a private call Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump has proposed boosting defense spending to $1.5 trillion in his 2027 budget released Friday, the largest such request in decades, reflecting his emphasis on U.S. military investments over domestic programs. The sizable increase for the Pentagon, some 44%, had been telegraphed by the Republican president even before the U.S.-led war against Iran. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45316,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45315\/revisions\/45316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}