{"id":349207,"date":"2026-04-03T10:49:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/white-house-asks-for-record-breaking-1-5-trillion-for-defense-in-2027-budget-request"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:49:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:49:30","slug":"white-house-asks-for-record-breaking-1-5-trillion-for-defense-in-2027-budget-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/white-house-asks-for-record-breaking-1-5-trillion-for-defense-in-2027-budget-request","title":{"rendered":"White Home asks for record-breaking $1.5 trillion for protection in 2027 funds request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">The White House, in their budget request for the 2027 fiscal year, is asking Congress to approve roughly $1.5 trillion for defense &#8212; a record-breaking military spending request as the U.S. remains in its fifth week of war with Iran.<!-- -->\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">That is a $445 billion, or a 42% increase from the 2026 total level,<!-- -->\u00a0<!-- -->according to the White House. Non-defense spending is reduced by $73 billion, or 10%, according to the<!-- -->\u00a0<!-- -->budget<!-- -->\u00a0<!-- -->released by the White House on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><em class=\" \">This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/Politics\/white-house-asks-record-breaking-15-trillion-defense\/story?id=131683487\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House, in their budget request for the 2027 fiscal year, is asking Congress to approve roughly $1.5 trillion for defense &#8212; a record-breaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":349210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,1674,4809,3786,332,173],"class_list":["post-349207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-business-finance","tag-congress","tag-first-presidency-of-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-politics","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349209,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349207\/revisions\/349209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}