of his speech tomorrow night to a joint session of congress. good evening to you, sandra. the president announcing this morning of the national governors association at his intent is to ask congress for an additional $50 billion in funding for the department of defense. that would put the total budget for the dod at 603 million and the rest is the discretionary budget, this is for spreading outside of medicare and social security and medicaid. about $462 billion. it really means that he has to sharpen his knives at the omb advice and pretty dramatic cuts, about 12% across the board. the president during the campaign made no secret about his concern about the military. you might remember how the u.s. air force was having to cannibalize aircraft to keep some of the other one flying. president trump often lamented about the shrinking size of the navy. he plans on following the reagan doctrine of peace through strength. he wants a military that no other nation in the world would

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