WASHINGTON _ Donald Trump will propose ending mandatory defense spending cuts during a speech in Philadelphia on Wednesday, and look to portray Hillary Clinton's world view as one of wild-eyed globalism, according to a senior Trump campaign official who briefed reporters Tuesday night.
The Trump campaign did not indicate how Trump would bypass sequestration cuts to the military, a provision of the Budget Control Act of 2011, which automatically went into effect in 2013, after Congress failed to pass a budget.
The Republican presidential nominee focused on national security while on the campaign trail Tuesday, saying during a rally in Greenville, N.C., that he would commission generals on his first day in office to submit a plan within 30 days to defeat Islamic State terrorists.
His comments came following a town hall earlier Tuesday in Virginia Beach, Va., where Trump again noted his opposition to a regime change in Syria from its current President Bashar Assad. Hillary Clinton, Trump's Democratic opponent, opposes the Assad regime.
In his Wednesday speech, Trump plans to knock Clinton's policies as adventurism that has resulted in death and destruction across the world and also regime crises, the campaign aide said on a conference call with reporters.
In Greenville on Tuesday evening, Trump debuted a foreign policy line of attack against Clinton, saying that she favors "military adventurism, rushing to invade countries ... and then inviting the refugees into our country creating power vacuums" that create terror groups like the Islamic State.
Clinton has routinely called Trump's judgment into question during the campaign, and did so again on Twitter Tuesday. "Trump says he 'knows more about ISIS than the generals do.' Not only is that wrong, it's disrespectful to our men and women in uniform," she tweeted.
Trump was accompanied on the campaign trail Tuesday by retired-Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a prominent Trump surrogate, his daughter Ivanka, as well as former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, all of whom met with military spouses following the town hall in Virginia Beach.
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