The Zhitong Finance App learned that the prospects for the $1.5 trillion defense budget proposed by President Trump are becoming bleak. After the Democratic Party won control of both houses of the Senate and the House of Representatives in the midterm elections, opposition within the National Assembly to this budget, which involved a 44% increase in spending in the context of the unpopular Iran war, increased markedly.

The Zhitong Finance App learned that the prospects for the $1.5 trillion defense budget proposed by President Trump are becoming bleak. After the Democratic Party won control of both houses of the Senate and the House of Representatives in the midterm elections, opposition within the National Assembly to this budget, which involved a 44% increase in spending in the context of the unpopular Iran war, increased markedly.