An aide puts her hand on a copy of Volume 1 of U.S. President Donald Trump's budget for Fiscal Year 2020 after it was delivered by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to the House Budget Committee room on Capitol Hill in Washington U.S., March 11, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump called on Monday for spending more U.S. taxpayer money on the military and a U.S.-Mexico border wall, while overhauling social safety-net programs in a budget plan likely to die in Congress but live on in his 2020 re-election campaign.
Like past presidential budget proposals, Trump's plan was highly unlikely to become law. It was immediately panned by Democrats, who control the House of Representatives and blocked Trump's push for border wall funding in a standoff that led last year to a five-week partial federal government shutdown.
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