Trump's Beltway: Defence spending gets boost while Mnuchin talks down trade war
Pentagon to get a funding injection as more details of Trump's first budget emerge.
Nathan Smith Wed, 01 Mar 2017
US President Donald Trump took his first major step toward constructing a 2018 federal budget proposal, asking federal agencies to draft plans to lift military spending by $US54 billion while cutting other federal agencies by the same amount.
However, the budget probably won’t include changes to
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