President Donald Trump will formally seek a total of $8.6 billion in a new border wall funding from Congress as part of the White House’s upcoming budget proposal for the next fiscal year, Fox News informed.
However, this new request will certainly be rejected by Congress amid the growing crisis at the southern border.
The budget would also seek money for the establishment of the so-called Space Force which will be an additional branch of the military.
The outline includes a total of $2.7 trillion in nondefense spending cuts and the administration says its proposals would put the federal government on track to balance the budget by 2034.
“In the last two years, President Trump and this Administration have prioritized reining in reckless Washington spending. The Budget that we have presented to Congress and the American people … embodies fiscal responsibility, and takes aim at Washington’s waste, fraud, and abuse,” Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Russ Vought said in a statement Sunday night. “Our national debt nearly doubled under the previous Administration and now stands at more than $22 trillion. This Budget shows that we can return to fiscal sanity without halting our economic resurgence while continuing to invest in critical priorities.”
Trump will try to secure $5 billion from the Congress, and an additional $3.6 billion from the military construction budget, for the fiscal year 2020. The request is coming aside from the $8.1 billion Trump has access to, which includes money he is trying to shift from military accounts after declaring a national emergency. Trump invoked the emergency declaration last month after Congress denied his request for $5.7 billion. Instead, Congress approved nearly $1.4 billion for the border barriers, far less than he wanted.
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