{"id":70796,"date":"2026-04-03T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/us-defense-spending-would-rise-445bn-under-trump-budget-plan-with-steep-cuts-elsewhere\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T12:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:00:14","slug":"us-defense-spending-would-rise-445bn-under-trump-budget-plan-with-steep-cuts-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/us-defense-spending-would-rise-445bn-under-trump-budget-plan-with-steep-cuts-elsewhere\/","title":{"rendered":"US defense spending would rise $445bn under Trump budget plan, with steep cuts elsewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats rebuke White House\u2019s \u2018bleak and unacceptable\u2019 view of priorities after 10% cuts proposed to other programs<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/apr\/03\/trump-justice-department-bondi-blanche-epstein-latest-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Defense spending would surge to its highest level in decades under a budget proposal put forward by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> on Friday, while other government programs would face cuts totaling 10%.<\/p>\n<p>The document prepared by the White House office of management and budget (OMB) is a starting point for negotiations that will probably occupy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-congress\">Congress<\/a>\u2019s appropriators in the coming months, and are unlikely to be enacted in full.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/03\/defense-spending-trump-budget-proposal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats rebuke White House\u2019s \u2018bleak and unacceptable\u2019 view of priorities after 10% cuts proposed to other programs US politics live \u2013 latest updates Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Defense spending would surge to its highest level in decades under a budget proposal put forward by the Trump administration on Friday, while &#8230; <a title=\"US defense spending would rise $445bn under Trump budget plan, with steep cuts elsewhere\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/us-defense-spending-would-rise-445bn-under-trump-budget-plan-with-steep-cuts-elsewhere\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US defense spending would rise $445bn under Trump budget plan, with steep cuts elsewhere\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}