“President Donald Trump's proposed 2027 military budget would be "the largest spending increase since World War II.”
What PolitiFact found
Adjusting for inflation, President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2027 budget proposal would represent the largest military spending increase since World War II. In terms of percentage increase measured in actual dollars, Trump’s proposal would increase the defense budget by 44%, making it the largest percentage increase in actual dollars since the Korean War and the third largest since WWII.
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In short
Democratic National Committee (party organization) made this claim around 3 April 2026. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 20 April 2026, 17 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Democratic National Committee has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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