WASHINGTON ¨C President Donald Trump in his 2020 budget on Monday called for overhauls of social programs that help poor and elderly Americans, while boosting military spending and funding a U.S.-Mexico border wall, in the opening gambits of his next funding fight with the U.S. Congress.
The Republican president¡¯s $4.7 trillion budget was immediately panned by Democrats in Congress, who rejected his push last year for wall funding in a standoff that led to a five-week partial shutdown of the federal government.
Like past presidential budget proposals, Trump¡¯s spending plan was highly unlikely to become law ¡ª especially with Democrats in control of the House of Representatives ¡ª but it does serve as an early manifesto of the policy priorities he will bring to his 2020 re-election campaign.
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