At a private event at the White House earlier this week - which was caught on camera - Trump said that military spending should be a national priority going forward.

“It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all of these individual things, they can do it on a state basis,” the president said, adding that the focus should be on “military protection.”

• Non-defence spending in the proposed budget has fallen by 10%, or about $73bn.
• Trump’s proposed budget would mark a 42% increase over the previous fiscal year, totalling $445bn.
• Of the total, approximately $1.1tn would be in discretionary spending for the Pentagon, the highest on record.
• Another $350bn - specifically for the industrial defence base - would come from a process known as budget reconciliation, a procedural shortcut that lets some legislation pass the Senate with a simple majority of 51 votes.
• The budget also requests pay rises for troops and $65.8 billion in shipbuilding funding, including for what Trump has referred to as a “Golden Fleet” of next generation vessels.