(AP)On Friday, President Trump announced his plans to lavish spending on the nation’s military in remarks at the Pentagon near Washington. “There’s a spending side of this that if we don’t deal with, we’re not going to come close to defending the needs of our country,” he warned. “Our military is more important to me than a balanced budget,” President Trump told Hannity on Thursday. GOP hawks in Congress have argued for years that the country needs to at least replenish defense spending lost because of across-the-board budget cuts. “He is a thug and a bully and we can’t treat him any other way.”Mike DeBonis contributed to this report.

Source: Washington Post January 28, 2017 05:30 UTC