No president gets all he wants in his budget, but Donald Trump “will probably come closer than any previous presidents in the last 30 or 40 years,” former Rep. Pete King told Newsmax on Sunday. 

“In the big picture, I support more defense spending,” the New York Republican said on “Wake Up America Weekend.” “I support more funding for homeland security. We have to cut back on extraneous programs. So I think he’s going to make probably more progress on his budget than any president, even going back to [Ronald] Reagan.”

King predicted that there will be a “lot of infighting, a lot of skirmishing,” but the combination of Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson means that “Republicans are going to get much of what the president wants when the budget comes out of the House.”

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