The officials were not authorized to publicly discuss budget details before Monday's release of the plan and spoke on condition of anonymity. And they've already resisted Trump's signature push to spend more money building a wall along the U.S. -Mexico border, prompting a 35-day federal government shutdown that ended in January. Eventually, Trump relented and reopened the government.
Additionally the House passed a resolution denying President Trump emergency powers to build his border wall and it's now in the Senate, where enough Republican senators have expressed support for it that it could pass the upper chamber.
In February, Trump declared a national emergency at the border, a maneuver that the White House claims would allow him to divert funds from other agencies.
The budget arrives as the Senate readies to vote this week to terminate Trump's national emergency declaration.
White House Economic Adviser Larry Kudlow touts major progress in the ongoing trade talks with China. They also must pass a measure to raise the debt ceiling in September or October or they will risk having the government falling behind on its obligations, something that could rattle the economy and financial markets. He plans to ask Congress for an additional $8.6 billion in funding for the construction of a border wall along the United States' southern border.
If approved, the money would be in addition to the $8 billion he has already secured, in part, by declaring a national emergency on the border.
So far, only 111 miles of barrier have either been built or are underway.
Trump built his 2016 campaign around his promise of a wall, which he said Mexico would pay for. He used to say Mexico would pay for it, but Mexico has refused to do so.
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Workers and US border patrol officers stand next to an excavator working in a section of the new wall between El Paso, Texas, in the United States and Ciudad Juarez as seen from the Mexican side of the border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Feb. 5, 2019. Instead, he has insisted the money come from USA taxpayers, arguing that criminals, terrorists, and drugs are flooding into the United States from across the southern border.
Trump's budget would boost funding for some of his priorities.
But he said Mr Trump "is going to stay with his wall". 'I think it's essential'. They said the money "would be better spent on rebuilding America".
The Trump administration is headed for a budget clash with Congress, with calls for deep domestic spending cuts that lawmakers are likely to ignore as the nation's debt reaches record levels.
Medicaid is a health-care program for low-income and disabled Americans, run jointly by states and the federal government.
The White House request represents the first marker in what's certain to be another protracted battle between the Trump administration and congressional negotiators - particularly Democrats who hold the majority in the House.
The budget is projected to balance over 15 years and projects that the economy will grow on average by about 3 percent over the next decade, the senior administration official said. And it seeks to shift some federal student loan costs to colleges and universities.
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