Bloated war fund will sink Trump’s budget, Dems say

Defense News: Key House Democrats are slamming the Trump administration’s plan to offset defense-spending limits by inflating a war fund and its plan to divert military funding to a controversial wall on the southern border.

The Trump administration’s decision to propose a $164 billion war budget with $98 billion in base budget needs for 2020 is a “patently dishonest budget maneuver” to avoid statutory budget caps, House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth, D-Ky., said Wednesday. Overall, the president is seeking a $750 billion national defense budget for 2020, beyond the $716 billion Congress enacted for 2019.

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