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Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News, the White House.
This spending boost would be paired with a requested $73 billion in cuts to domestic spending, according to a budget summary from the White House.
The annual budget request represents a blueprint of the executive branch's priorities, though Congress ultimately sets spending levels.
Trump outlined his priorities during a closed-press lunch this week with religious leaders.
The White House posted a video of the event before deleting it.
Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News, the White House.
This spending boost would be paired with a requested $73 billion in cuts to domestic spending, according to a budget summary from the White House.
The annual budget request represents a blueprint of the executive branch's priorities, though Congress ultimately sets spending levels.
Trump outlined his priorities during a closed-press lunch this week with religious leaders.
The White House posted a video of the event before deleting it.
Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News, the White House.
Trump called Vice President J.D.
Vance, who's leading the task force, the fraud czar.
He added that while the task force will look for fraud nationwide, it would focus primarily in blue states led by, in Trump's words, crooked Democrat politicians.
Trump then listed California, Illinois, Minnesota, Maine and New York as examples.
He also explicitly called out Minnesota for having a large Somali population.
Trump created the task force in mid-March.
He has made combating fraud a central part of his political message ahead of November's midterms.
Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News, the White House.
It's a wild guess, but there is some science involved in it.