Thus, at least some trimming to the huge amount is possible.

Of the $700 billion, about $640 billion is the Pentagon's base budget and another $60 billion dollars is allocated to fight simultaneous wars in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere. This whopping amount exceeds last year's $619 billion, thus flouting the "sequestration" spending caps in the 2011 Budget Control Act. Trump and the Republicans want to use budget savings from domestic spending to finance the defense spending increases. However, they will need Democratic votes to break the sequestration caps; the Democrats' price for doing so is a logrolling that would also require increases in domestic spending.