{"id":30862,"date":"2026-04-03T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/03\/us-defense-spending-would-rise-445bn-under-trump-budget-plan-with-steep-cuts-elsewhere-theguardian-com\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:45:00","slug":"us-defense-spending-would-rise-445bn-under-trump-budget-plan-with-steep-cuts-elsewhere-theguardian-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/03\/us-defense-spending-would-rise-445bn-under-trump-budget-plan-with-steep-cuts-elsewhere-theguardian-com\/","title":{"rendered":"US defense spending would rise $445bn under Trump budget plan, with steep cuts elsewhere &#8211; theguardian.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMijwFBVV95cUxOZnZ4bzdmQVpmV2JETFU1eUU4VVpDY1RKX2VqTTI2X19IeWZnM205TEdTM3NCLUZMQVgxNW1DZmpMc2NmOVUwbV9vRHBtTVFNS0RzM0xqUGFwZXVqX3dyNlU1dHBCTHVfa1RLZkRQRnQtTmFlSzk0bW5vcC1yVmxfeFBFT0RNNkhiSTZ5SVUzbw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">US defense spending would rise $445bn under Trump budget plan, with steep cuts elsewhere<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">theguardian.com<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiY0FVX3lxTE5tRWZtRmdjejBPcGw5RXlmTmllX1BnMEFPenpWSU1KTUZtbk5kRDZERk5VY2d6c2ltWURWN1lZb2ZPaWFPRmVYX1ZQNEZGaXI1UG1YaUYyeU1sVXJ4QTRGTXFrUQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">White House Seeks 40 Percent Increase in Military Spending<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The New York Times<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiggFBVV95cUxOWnBCVVcydGwwcVBZZmpjVk00Uk9wbnNKbXYzenJxTlhHLVF3c2M2OWZaQWFDZFVoZ3BFRmw4eFJxb3N0aF8xNmxIekt3RmRwaG56T3czWmRRM0d0Y0RHUmNIc1hWR3BiWmN3TW5lbVFjVGZJV0IwZEYtUGlMaHd5V3FR0gGHAUFVX3lxTE9TYzB4RHdPU0hNZWUzX1lqVGRZZVJ1X2dQek16dGNSSm03SS1uYWkwTFFrQ2s5aUtrWk1PMXN1OWg3S2toYXp3S3pQZlRhMXJsOEdZOEZNUnJYMVotUklQWWt5QVpVWThXZUNnNzR5ckdMV00yYXQtMFExd2xabDJYMm45S0paOA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Susan Collins knocks funding cuts in White House budget proposal<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Hill<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMif0FVX3lxTE80U2xXQVpYcG82aHVwNzViQUhXdjRlQTJMWW92Qmp5VnE0U08wNFYwUU1vNEdITWxBekhmQ1RhUXhmV0ZqMF90XzJDM1Jqb0NJZDlkZ1poemgwZmhlSTBuTldHRjdGN29KZHhTVVFDVmlEcUJ2UVVoNGwtZnpOY1U?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">The White House has a war-funding sales pitch the GOP might not buy<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Politico<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilwFBVV95cUxOajhSRTcwaHdPVHNPMnJHMEQ0T1ZGOUNjYldpV00zWnVkMU9RU29NdlpORVR6eWpqcFFpclZ5c1ZnV3kxZFJzMWZieXJ1Vkl1dEwxNlpqc3Zqa2xycC1BOW9VeFQzb3UtZnJnNlVadFY1V3R2aG5Dem9DWVZkSE56WEsycFd1NTktcUoyQWhXNmx4ZzBqMnM4?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Trump just raised the $39 trillion national debt with the largest budget hike since World War II\u2014and nobody can figure out how to pay for it<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Fortune<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US defense spending would rise $445bn under Trump budget plan, with steep cuts elsewhere&nbsp;&nbsp;theguardian.com White House Seeks 40 Percent Increase in Military Spending&nbsp;&nbsp;The New York&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/03\/us-defense-spending-would-rise-445bn-under-trump-budget-plan-with-steep-cuts-elsewhere-theguardian-com\/\" class=\"read-more\">[more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}