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Humanitarian aid. trump's budget increases by $54 billion bringing the total defense budget to $603 billion. ironically, they don't realize how little money goes to foreign aid. according to a recent survey, americans guessed on average that 26% of the federal budget is used to assist other countries. the truth is only 1% of the federal budget is used on foreign aid. so what is the argument in favor of continuing to spend even the small amount of money to help other countries? there is a strong case to be made that it is in america's national security interest. it makes the united states more ...

>> there's always going to be a big battle on the budget question. i disagree with that, this is not a huge increase, it was a sufficient increase. not just mccain and others, i think you'll hear this from the house armed services committee, from rank-and-file republicans who say, we can't afford to have a budget that spends just a minor increase, 3% more than president obama did in his last year. you're going to have a much more substantial increase. the other stuff is big. but this increase is not enough. have john mccain and lindsey graham and others saying, this has got to be $640 billion,...

>> there's always going to be a big battle on the budget question. i disagree with that, this is not a huge increase, it was a sufficient increase. not just mccain and others, i think you'll hear this from the house armed services committee, from rank-and-file republicans who say, we can't afford to have a budget that spends just a minor increase, 3% more than president obama did in his last year. you're going to have a much more substantial increase. the other stuff is big. but this increase is not enough. have john mccain and lindsey graham and others saying, this has got to be $640 billion,...

Did with all the money that we spent on defense over the course of the last eight years, i will tell you this, maria n arriving at the $54 billion, there's a couple of things that got us to that number. it's the number that the president promised in the campaign. it's the number that would be for the military, $603 billion if there was no sequester. that's exactly what this does. we sat down with the defense department, with the pentagon to go over how much money they actually needed to start solving some of these problems. we are not going to undo the damage that's been done in just one year,...

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 ...