Washington, April 9 -- Representative Mark Pocan issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Representative Mark Pocan (WI-02) and Ilhan Omar (MN-05), co-chairs of the Defense Spending Reduction Caucus, released the following statement after President Trump submitted the annual Presidential Budget Request to Congress, which called for a $1.5 trillion budget to the Pentagon, a 42% increase from last year, while cutting domestic spending by more than 10%:
"Donald Trump's draconian proposal to boost the Pentagon's budget beyond the already unthinkable $1 trillion mark, to an even more outrageous $1.5 trillion, could be the most egregious waste of taxpayer dollars we have ever seen. This would be a larger military budget than the next 34 ...