Donald Trump has revealed plans to slash environmental and foreign aid budgets to fund a $54bn increase in military spending.

In his first budget, the President outlined proposals to cut more than $10bn (£8bn) from the Department of State and USAID - an agency which works to fight poverty across the globe.

Mr Trump has also announced a planned 31% ($2.6bn) reduction in the Environmental Protection Agency's budget - a cut that would lead to the loss of a fifth of the organisation's workforce.

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The proposal would discontinue the agency's Clean Power Plan, a policy announced in 2015 by former president Barack Obama to reduce carbon pollution from power plants.


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It would also end funding for international climate change programmes, climate change research and partnership programmes.

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Meanwhile, Mr Trump's "America First" draft budget sets aside $639bn (£520bn) for the Department of Defense - a $52bn (£42.3bn) year-on-year increase.

Mr Trump said the boost has been announced to "rebuild the US Armed Forces" after "arbitrary depletion" under Mr Obama.

He said: "We must ensure that our courageous servicemen and women have the tools they need to deter war, and when called upon to fight, do only one thing - win."

Image: The President plans to boost military spending by $54bn

The budget adds that the additional funding would "provide the resources needed to accelerate the defeat of ISIS" and back efforts to counter "complex threats from sophisticated state actors and transnational terrorist groups".

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The planned increases in military spending, which include an extra $2.8bn (£2.28bn) for homeland security, are the largest since Ronald Reagan's presidency in the 1980s.

To prop up the increase, Mr Trump also plans to cut the Department of Health and Human Services' budget by 18% ($15.1bn) and decrease education funding by 13% ($9bn).

Image: Mr Trump claimed the military had been 'depleted' under Barack Obama

The President's budget director, Mick Mulvaney, described the spending plans as a "hard power budget".

He said: "The President very clearly wants to send a message to our allies and our potential adversaries that this is strong power administration."

Mr Trump's spending proposals will be submitted to Congress in a series of "annual appropriations bills".

To be passed each need 60 votes in the Senate, which is marginally controlled 52-48 by the Republicans.