WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump is reviving his border wall fight, preparing a new budget that will seek $8.6 billion for his signature project, impose steep spending cuts to other domestic programs and set the stage for another fiscal battle.
Budget documents like the one Trump is releasing today are often seen as just a starting point of negotiation. Fresh off the longest government shutdown in history, Trumps 2020 proposal shows he is eager to confront Congress again to boost defense spending and cut $2.7 trillion in nondefense spending over a decade.
Titled A Budget for a Better America: Promises Kept. Taxpayers First, Trumps proposal embodies fiscal responsibility, said Russ Vought, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget.