Billion doesn t go far enough and won t allow the navy to build 82 new ships and submarines. president trump s defense budget is $603 billion but senator john mccain and congressman thornberry want $640 billion to rebuild the force. more than 100 retired admirals and generals signed a letter warning against slashing the state department budget and foreign aid to boost the defense budget. jim mattis cautioned four years ago if you don t fund the state department fully then i need to buy more ammunition. shannon: the pr also using the phrase radical islamic terrorism despite some pushback on those specific words, right? that s right. his first national security meeting president trump s new national security advisor mcmaster called the phrase unhelpful because it aids terrorists recruiting by painting the fight against a war against islam. some thought the president would avoid the phrase last night but he didn t. president trump: we re
And pay for it somewhere. the budget goes hand in hand with that. so exhibit a, the following sound bite. take a listen to president trump yesterday. we have to win. we have winning wars again. when i was young in high school and college, everybody used to say, we never lost aer with a. we never lost a war. you remember. and now we never win a war. we never win. and we don t fight to win. we don t fight to win. so we have to win or don t fight it at all. so we re talking about specifically an increase of $54 billion for defense spending. we can throw up the basic numbers there. your total budget, $603 billion. there s your $54 billion increase. how does this compare? this is a 10% increase. i want to mention a letter written by 120 retired generals and admirals that goes counter to what president trump is trying to do. and in that letter we have people talking about the importance of the peace corps. talking about the importance of the state department.
Care of veterans and increasing school choice. all of that without adding to the currently projected fy 2018 deficit. the topline defense discretionary number is $603 billion, that is a 50 for billion dollar increase, one of the largest increases in history. it is also a number that allows the president to keep his president to undo the military sequester, topline nondefense number will be $452 billion, as a $54 billion savings, the largest proposed reduction since the early years of the reagan administration. the reductions in nondefense spending follow the same model as the president keeping his promises and doing exactly what he said he was going to do. it reduces money we give to other nations, reduces deposit s programs and programs that some we do not work. the bottom line is this, the president is going to protect the country and do so exactly the same with every american family has had to do over the last few years which is prioritize spending. the schedule from here, these
Comes out and says i want less money for police departments but they re pointing out, folks, that crime is down. help us understand, hance nichols, is there a good sense of how this money is going to be spent if you re trying to make the case to the average american taxpayer this is why we need it and here s what it s going to go for, what s the answer? readiness. in one word that s the answer from the pentagon. they feel they have serious readiness problems, not enough combat brigades. they re actually functional, ready to go out and hit the ground. following up on robert s points on the numbers, they re talking about add 54 billion increase. we don t know what that s an increase from. if that s an increase from the sequester levels, the budget control act of 2011, i m going to be a little wongy with the numbers here, that only gets you to $603 billion for the fiscal year of 2018. what they want, at least capitol hill does, congressional republicans, they want to get all the way to
This just in to cnn. sources telling cnn the president signed off on checking the phones of white house staffers in a crackdown on leaks. white house press secretary sean spicer checked phones for encrypted apps and other messages that may have been used to contact reporters. we will have jake tapper having more on that story in a moment. defense secretary james mattis has been meeting with key members of the national security council to discuss their proposed plan to accelerate the fight to defeat isis. president trump gave his generals 30 days to produce this ramped up plan. this as we are learning the president wants to increase defense and security spending by $54 billion. overall it would bring defense spending to $603 billion if the president gets his wish. here he was addressing the nation s governors on war earlier today. we have win. we have to start winning wars again. have to say, when i was young in high school and college