2016 Trump Disagrees With 2013 Trump On Budget Cuts

On Wednesday, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump railed against an arbitrary cap on spending that Congress set as a compromise in early 2013. Known as sequestration or the sequester, the automatic budget cuts have been in place ever since, hitting both defense and non-defense discretionary spending.

But Trump only focused on the military side of the ledger. “As soon as I take office,” Trump pledged, “I will ask Congress to fully eliminate the defense sequester,” arguing it will increase certainty about the future for military leaders and “most importantly we will be defended, because without defense we don’t have a country.”...
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