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Trump's Budget a Welcome Blueprint for America's Future

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Office of Management and Budget (OMB) staff delivers President Donald Trump's 2020 budget outline to the House Budget Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March 11, 2019. Trump's new budget calls for billions more for his border wall, with steep cuts in domestic programs but increases for military spending. (J. ScottApplewhite/AP)

Frank Gaffney By Monday, 11 March 2019 03:26 PM EDT Current | Bio | Archive

The Trump administration’s budget for the next fiscal year comes out today.

While its details are not yet available, two priorities have been telegraphed.

First, the president seeks another increase in defense funding while curbing expenditures on domestic programs. This allocation of resources is made imperative by, among other dangers around the world, rapidly intensifying threats from Communist China.

Second, Mr. Trump wants another $8.6 billion for construction of physical barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border to complete "the Wall" in the top seventeen places along that frontier used by those illegally bringing in drugs, trafficked women and children and terrorists.

It’s predictable that the president’s opponents on Capitol Hill will seek to substitute their priorities for his.

But Mr. Trump’s blueprint is the right starting point for the debate we must have on securing our country against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Frank Gaffney, Jr. is president of the Center for Security Policy (CSP), a columnist for The Washington Times, and host of the nationally syndicated program, Secure Freedom Radio. Read more reports from Frank Gaffney, Jr. — Click Here Now.

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