In a pre-emptive rhetorical strike before the May 23 release of the Trump administration's proposed budget, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops detailed the U.S. church's concerns with the president's anticipated fiscal priorities, especially as a 10 percent, $54 billion boost to the Pentagon budget appears certain to be included.
“Sharp increases in defense and immigration enforcement spending,” the bishops say, “coupled with simultaneous and severe reductions to non-defense discretionary spending, particularly to many domestic and international programs that assist the most vulnerable, would be profoundly troubling.
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