{"id":1377759,"date":"2026-04-03T17:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/trump-plans-to-increase-the-us-defense-budget-to-1-5-trillion-reasons\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T17:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:54:07","slug":"trump-plans-to-increase-the-us-defense-budget-to-1-5-trillion-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/trump-plans-to-increase-the-us-defense-budget-to-1-5-trillion-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump plans to increase the US defense budget to $1.5 trillion: reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>US President Donald Trump plans to address Congress with a proposal for a significant increase in defense spending in the budget. The goal is to increase funding to $1.5 trillion, which would be one of the largest increases in a decade.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-04-03\/trump-budget-pits-spending-cuts-against-massive-defense-push?srnd=homepage-europe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> According to journalists, the budget proposal includes $1.1 trillion in base discretionary spending for the Department of Defense, as well as another $350 billion in additional resources. The additional funding is related to the US war against Iran.<\/p>\n<p> At the same time, the administration plans to cut non-defense spending by about 10%, which is about $73 billion.<\/p>\n<p> The decision is expected to be the largest single-year increase in the defense budget since World War II.<\/p>\n<p> Journalists note that this initiative comes against the backdrop of the president&#8217;s attempts to convince the public of the advisability of war against Iran and on the eve of the midterm elections in November.<\/p>\n<p> The article also states that there may be controversy among Republican lawmakers over cuts to domestic programs, but increasing defense spending is likely to gain support.<\/p>\n<p> Earlier it was reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/senat-ssha-skhvalyv-oboronnyy-biudzhet-na-925-miliardiv-dolariv-skilky-vydiliat-dlia-dopomohy-ukraini\/\">the United States Senate supported the defense budget bill for fiscal year 2026 in the amount of $925 billion<\/a> . The document provides for an increase in funding for the Ukraine security assistance program to $500 million. Now the Senate and the House of Representatives must agree on the final text of the bill.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump plans to address Congress with a proposal for a significant increase in defense spending in the budget. The goal is to increase funding to $1.5 trillion, which would be one of the largest increases in a decade. This is reported by Bloomberg . According to journalists, the budget proposal includes $1.1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1255713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1377759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1255713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}