Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan federal budget watchdog based in Washington, D.C., said Trump’s proposed budget “must be rejected.”

“President Trump’s proposal to explode the Pentagon budget with a 50 percent hike next year is as wasteful as it sounds,” Steve Ellis, president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, said in a statement. “Congress is already poised to approve a 13% increase in Pentagon spending this year. We’re over $38 trillion in debt. We have real needs, at home and abroad, none of which will be easier to meet by hitting the gas pedal on the debt crisis.”

“The president says this enormous increase would be offset by tariff revenue. Besides the fact that the math doesn’t add up, he has also promised that revenue to reduce the deficit, send $2000 checks to citizens, bailout farmers impacted by the trade war, and the list goes on,” Ellis continued. “This increase cannot happen. It must not happen. Congress must repudiate this nonsense.”