Trump's Plan for Spike in Defense Spending Faces Big Hurdles | Military.com: Republicans control Congress, so President Donald Trump's pledge to boost the Pentagon budget by tens of billions of dollars should be a sure bet.
It's not.
Trump faces skeptical Democrats whose support he'll need and resistance from fiscal conservatives opposed to repealing a 2011 law that set firm limits on military and domestic spending. Unless the president figures out a way to mollify the disparate camps, he'll have a tough time delivering on a signature campaign promise to rescue the armed forces from a festering financial crisis.
