Donald Trump runs his own way and prepares to announce to Congress and the Senate assembled on Tuesday a plan to significantly increase the military spending budget and drastically cut social spending, however, saving Social Security and Medicare for the poorest sections of the society. The New York Times writes it on Monday quoting 4 executives of the American administration.
The president, says the NYT, will instruct federal agencies on Monday to prepare a budget for the next fiscal year (starting in October) that would include a major increase in military spending and cuts drastic enough for domestic agencies to save only Social Security and Medicare.
It will be the first step, the US newspaper explains, in a new campaign to redraw the narrative of a White House in the grip of confusion.
The day before the speech to Congress in joint sessions, scheduled for Tuesday, Trump therefore seems intent on asking for the green light to a budget with cuts of several billion dollars which will be the first to be paid by the Agency and the Ministry for Environment, according to rumors reported by the NYT which gathered the advances of the four anonymous state executives, but cited in the article as a source with direct knowledge of the dossier. The network of social programs, net of the two mega-projects mentioned above, will be severely hit.
However, these are preliminary moves, warns the newspaper, in a negotiation process between the White House and the federal agencies that usually downsize the initial requests made by the White House.
