{"id":149118,"date":"2026-04-03T18:26:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149118"},"modified":"2026-04-03T18:26:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:26:42","slug":"trump-seeks-us1-5-trillion-for-defence-in-new-budget-request-amid-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149118","title":{"rendered":"Trump seeks US$1.5 trillion for defence in new budget request amid Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS President Donald Trump is seeking congressional approval for US$1.5 trillion in defence spending in his new budget proposal, underscoring his administration\u2019s focus on military investment as the country remains engaged in conflict in the Middle East.<br \/>\nThe blueprint released by the White House on Friday for the financial year 2027 proposes a 44 per cent increase in the US defence budget \u2013 implementing the widely controversial plan first unveiled by Trump in a January social media post.<br \/>\nIf&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/us\/politics\/article\/3349007\/trump-administration-seeks-us15-trillion-defence-new-budget-request?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS President Donald Trump is seeking congressional approval for US$1.5 trillion in defence spending in his new budget proposal, underscoring his administration\u2019s focus on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149118"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}