Story highlights Trump's administration unveiled the broad strokes of his budget proposal

It promises to trade cuts in most of the government to pay for spending hikes in defense

Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump outlined some very broad strokes of his budget proposal during remarks in Washington Monday.

Details will come later. But we do know after a quick briefing from Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney that most federal programs would be cut in Trump's vision. Defense and law enforcement spending would rise. He also plans to dramatically increase infrastructure spending, although he did not offer a dollar figure to go along with that idea Monday and he didn't say exactly how it would be paid for.

It should be noted that Trump's proposal is like an opening bid and will go through a difficult budget process on Capitol Hill. But here's what we know so far.

Trump's opening proposal is that of the money the federal government can decide where to spend, $603 billion would go to defense and $462 billion would go to non-defense items. That's a simple swap -- putting $54 billion non-defense dollars into the defense pile.

Raising defense spending by $54 billion is about a 10% defense spending increase. That's a lot of money and it will take across-the-board cuts from the rest of the government in order to achieve that level of increase since that dollar amount is larger than the complete funding for most other federal agencies. The US is set to spend $36 billion total on foreign aid in 2017. The entire budget requested by the State Department for 2017 was about $50 billion . That request will have to come down to meet Trump's goal.

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