Republicans are divided over President Trump’s budget, which lays out his preferred vision for how the government should be funded for most of 2026.

Hard-line conservatives have cheered the plan as a key step in the right direction and a roadmap for Republicans to follow when they begin crafting annual funding legislation in the coming weeks, but other Republicans have already raised concerns with how the Pentagon would fare under the plan.

“He basically has a status quo defense budget,” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) said on Tuesday, arguing the blueprint would not do enough to clearly beef up defense spending.

Trump officials say the president’s request would increase defense funding by 13 percent for fiscal 2026, bringing the total to more than $1 trillion.

But some GOP lawmakers have taken issue with the administration’s assumption that the increase would come from a major reconciliation bill currently being crafted in Congress.

“All of the growth in that comes from reconciliation,” Cramer said Tuesday afternoon, adding the reconciliation package Republicans are putting together “is a one-time expenditure.”

“I was disappointed in that. I’d rather see him go to a trillion with his budget and take the $150 billion from the budget reconciliation and do some things to jump-start some programs and to leapfrog in some areas and to catch up to our adversaries,” Cramer argued.

The budget plan flatlines base discretionary defense........

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