INTERVIEW – JAMES “JIM” CARAFANO – Vice President for the Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation

• Pentagon sends ISIS options to White House.  (CNN) The Pentagon has sent President Donald Trump what it calls a “preliminary framework” for options to ramp up the US battle against ISIS, in a plan he requested in order to make good on his campaign vow to crush the extremist group. Trump called for the new blueprint to defeat ISIS in Syria and Iraq a month ago, and the document details possible military, diplomatic and financial measures to increase US engagement in the campaign, a US official said.
• Trump budget seeks to give Pentagon $54 billion extra.  President Donald Trump will seek to boost Pentagon spending by $54 billion in his first budget proposal and cut the same amount from non-defense spending, including a large reduction in foreign aid, a White House budget official said on Monday.