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2017-03-16 — bostonglobe.com
Presidents go through the motions of putting together a budget for the upcoming fiscal year. They give it snappy titles like "America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again." They send it to Congress with great fanfare -- and then, generally speaking, it gets discarded and Congress writes its own plan.
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Even though the United States faces no significant military threat, and even though China is slowing its military spending and Russia is cutting theirs, Trump is proposing a $54 billion increase to America's already bloated military budget. That number is almost equivalent to what Russia spends in total on its national defense.
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