700,000 refugees and will continue to do so, for everyone that needs it. regardless of race, nationality or religious creed. the attack on ukraine affects europe and its sense of security. poland decided to immediately increase its defense spending budget to 3% of its gdp, beginning next year. as a key country for defending the nato eastern flank, poland has welcomed the alliance s swift reaction to a renewed strategy and circumstances. and conveyed to secretary blinken my thanks to president biden for his effective leadership in coordinating an
i think 5% in cuts to education, health, environmental protections. will he be personalized for want doing that? there are parts of the base who think those things are important to them? he s trying to continue to crease the military, the defense spending budget as well. we re at 716 billion now. he wants to raise that to 750 billion in the next fiscal year. and that is something that he has promised a lot and out toed a ltouted a lot on the campaign trail. it was about a year ago when he looked like he wasn t going to silent spending bill that time over disputes over the wall. republicans were actually able to persuade him to sign it because of that major spending increase for the military. so this really sis a blueprint n terms of his priorities come together 2020 election. it s just not going anywhere in reality. let s talk about 2020 because
ed: tonight, big strategic shift to tell you about from the defense department. when it comes to tackling threats from russia and china. correspondent bryan llenas is at fort drum were where president trump signed the new spending bills. we are now rebuilding our military like we never have before. the tenth mountain division, the most diploid divisions as 9/11, welcomed the president ana military demonstration. a celebration of sorts before the president signed into law the john s. mccain national defense authorization act, a $760 billion defense spending budget for 2019 that promises to boost the military. under this bill, the u.s. military will add 15,000 troops to its ranks, and troops will
ed: a strategic shift from the defense department when it comes to tackling threats from russia and china. brian is where donald trump signed the new defense spending bill and is big. after years of devastating cuts, we are now rebuilding our military like we never have before. reporter: the 10th mountain division, the most deployed army division since 9/11 welcomed the president and vice president of fort drum army base in new york with a military demonstration. a celebration of sorts signed into law the john s mccain national defense authorization act, $760 billion defense spending budget for 2019 that promises to boost the military. under this bill the us military
we were going to do this thing when they changed the social security formula, a big hole for government. they were going to raise more tacks, that deal making seems to be gone now. now it s the old i ll spend on the green initiatives, you get a defense spending budget. that leads to more spending with which we can t afford. i think we can solve these problems in a neutral way. lower income tax to offset it. that will discourage, consume the energy and encourage working. you can t spend money on credits here and more defense spending to get other people to vote for it. that s the old way government works. that s how you get the deficits. john, how are you going to break the cycle of debt if we increase spending, $56 billion? we are not. nobody wants to deal when titlementes. president obama says he is not going to deal when titlementes based on what he said. that is our probable. look, we can cut discretionary spending and military spending to zero. we are running a deficit in