Tear-down Budget: Most of Trump's poll promises are impossible to keep

Budget would raise spending in only 3 of 17 sectors - defence, homeland security & veterans affairs

The White House budget director, Mick Mulvaney, defended the president’s budget proposal for 2018 by saying it puts numbers on Mr. Trump’s campaign promises.

That it does, but in so doing, it shows that many of those promises simply cannot be kept. As he pledged, Mr. Trump would spend heavily on the military and border security — but only, as it turns out, by spending far less in areas like education and infrastructure that he had once deemed important.

This is, of course, very much a political document, full of bluster and preposterous cuts that Mr. Trump must know that