Article snippet: MORE released a new budget on Monday that proposes huge cuts to domestic spending even as it boosts the Pentagon’s account and calls for $8.6 billion in new funding for a wall on the Mexican border. The budget is essentially dead on arrival in the Democratic House, but it will shape a series of policy fights this year that could lead to 2019 ending where it began: with a shutdown. Here are five takeaways. Trump sees wall fight as political winner The partial government shutdown triggered by Trump’s demands for a wall ended in his retreat. He opened the government, and then signed a funding measure that fell far short of his demands. He and Congress are now waging war over his emergency declaration to find more funds for the wall. Despite the losses, the new budget shows Trump is not backing down as he signals to his supporters that he will never give in on the wall. A little more than a year before his reelection effort will be in high gear, Trump is asking for $8.6 billion to cover 277 miles of wall. Trump is upping the ante on the central theme of his 2016 campaign, betting it will keep his most loyal supporters behind him while providing arguments to throw at Democrats. The question for many will be what will happen later this year, when House Democrats do not include money for the wall in their new appropriations measures. Debt doesn't matter to Trump Budget watchdogs say the new budget shows Trump doesn’t really care about a deficit that has ballooned under... Link to the full article to read more