Trump touts $1T US defense budget

President Donald Trump said his administration had approved a defense budget in the “vicinity” of $1 trillion, Report informs via Bloomberg.

“We are very cost conscious but the military is something that we have to build and we have to be strong because you have a lot of bad forces out there now,” Trump said at the White House on Monday during a meeting with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Trump added his administration will approve a budget that will be “the biggest one we’ve ever done for the military.”