President Trump will instruct federal agencies on Monday to assemble a budget for the coming fiscal year that includes sharp increases in Defense Department spending and drastic enough cuts to domestic agencies that he can keep his promise to leave Social Security and Medicare alone
.. Mr. Trump will demand a budget with tens of billions of dollars in reductions to the Environmental Protection Agency and State Department
.. But this plan — a product of a collaboration between the Office of Management and Budget director, Mick Mulvaney; the National Economic Council director, Gary Cohn; and the White House chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon — is intended to make a big splash for a president eager to show that he is a man of action.
.. “They might not agree with everything you do, but people will respect you for doing what you said you were going to do,” said Jason Miller
.. Despite his lament that he was handed “a mess” by President Barack Obama, he inherited a low unemployment rate, a lack of international crises requiring immediate attention, and majorities in both houses of Congress.
.. Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago, who was Mr. Obama’s first chief of staff, said in an interview Sunday night that Mr. Trump was trying to create a “sense of urgency
.. White House officials are operating under the assumption that the rate of the United States’ economic growth this year will be 2.4 percent
.. That is slightly ahead of current projections, but it’s well below the 3 percent to 4 percent growth that Mr. Trump promised during the campaign.