Pentagon grows, state dept shrinks in US Budget

President Donald Trump will send proposal to Congress on Thursday

President Donald Trump will send a Budget to Congress on Thursday that sharply reorders the nation’s priorities by spending billions of dollars on defending the southern border and bolstering the Pentagon while severely cutting funds for foreign aid, poverty programs and the environment.

The Budget would fulfill Trump’s campaign promise to shock Washington by slashing the government work force — but it is virtually ensured to be discarded by Hill Republicans who see many of Trump’s cuts as too rushed, indiscriminate and reckless.

“You can’t drain the swamp and leave all of the people in it,” Mick Mulvaney, the White House’s Budget