Read the full White House budget blueprint
The proposal slashes funding for the EPA and State Department.
ByABC News
March 16, 2017, 9:26 AM
— -- The Office of Management and Budget has released its blueprint for the 2018 budget, "America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again."
The proposed budget would slash funding for the State Department and the Environmental Protection Agency and calls for a 10 percent increase in defense spending.
OMB Director Mick Mulvaney told reporters Wednesday, “We wrote it using the president's own words. We went through his speeches, we went through articles that have been written about his policies ... and we turned those policies into numbers."
Read the full White House budget proposal.