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March 3, 2017

President Trump Tours Aircraft Carrier, Vowing Huge Military Increase
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President Donald Trump toured a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in
Virginia Thursday, using the massive warship as a backdrop to push his
plan to increase the Pentagon's budget by $54 billion.
bq. President Donald Trump: "Our military requires sustained stable
funding to meet the growing needs placed in our defense. Right now our
aging frontline strike and strike fighters, a whole aircraft, many many
aircraft, are often more likely to be down for maintenance than they are
to be up in the sky. Our Navy is now the smallest it has been since,
believe it or not, World War I. Don't worry. It will soon be the largest
it's been."
On Monday, Trump proposed increasing the military budget to just over
$600 billion-a nearly 10 percent increase-while deeply slashing the
budgets of other agencies including the EPA and the State Department.


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