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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: President Trump's Budget Would Add $7.2 Trillion in Federal Deficits Over 10 Years [Watch (HLS stream): President Trump's Budget Would Add $7.2 Trillion in Federal Deficits Over 10 Years](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/9zqFuKYI.m3u8) (1:24)  _Published 2018-02-12. President Donald Trump unveiled a $4.4 trillion budget for next year that heralds an era of $1 trillion-plus federal deficits and — unlike the plan he released last year — never comes close to promising a balanced ledger even after 10 years_ --- Jul 27, 2023 11:29 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Zohran Mamdani Says New Budget Has Eliminated New York City’s Deficit](/video/lzfbU5UT/) ### Zohran Mamdani Says New Budget Has Eliminated New York City’s Deficit [The Senate Has Passed the GOP's $4 Trillion Budget Blueprint](/video/QiPqceyk/) ### The Senate Has Passed the GOP's $4 Trillion Budget Blueprint [The Federal Deficit – A Finance Panel](/video/70mZyTRy/):55 ### The Federal Deficit – A Finance Panel --- ## Transcript The budget was recently passed, and the reason it was passed is because of our military. Our military was totally depleted, and we will have a military like we've never had before. We're gonna have An incredible military. And to me that means a couple a things. Number one, it does mean jobs. But really number one it means safety and security, cuz without the military, and we may have very strong views on spending which I have, but without the military it's possible there's no reason for us to be meeting. Maybe we wouldn't be here. So we're gonna have the strongest military we've ever have by far. This morning I summited legislature principles to congress that we'll spare the biggest and boldest infrastructure that's being in America history, the frame wall would generate an unprecedented to 1. 5 to 1. 7 trillion dollars investment. In American infrastructure. We're here today to discuss the critical need to rebuild America's crumbling infrastructure. And one understands, and the people in this room really understand better than most, probably, hopefully, better than anybody. 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