<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>birken</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ll just note from a political perspective, Donald Trump threatened to veto the final budget bill because of the totality of these spending increases.  He was not in favor of these increases.&lt;p&gt;In fact the budget Donald Trump proposed [1] mainly was massive increases in military spending with sharp cuts to many domestic agencies (EPA -25%, Education -5%), including many research agencies they don&amp;#x27;t agree with (like the NOAA [2]).&lt;p&gt;But what happened is many Republicans in the freedom caucus refused to vote for a budget that increased the debt by so much, so a compromise was required as Democratic votes were going to be needed.  So to vastly oversimplify, Republicans wanted higher military spending, Democrats wanted higher domestic spending, and the compromise was reached that everybody got everything and who cares about the national debt.  The bill actually passed in a very bipartisan way, with 62% of republicans and 59% of democrats in the House voting for the final bill, but with many of the &amp;quot;no&amp;quot; votes for different reasons (no DACA solution, debt increase too much, not enough wall spending, etc).&lt;p&gt;So while these increases are good (if you happen to like R&amp;amp;D spending), they aren&amp;#x27;t due to congress shifting their spending priorities, they are just due to a massive increase in the debt.&lt;p&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;graphics&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;politics&amp;#x2F;trump-budget-2019&amp;#x2F;?utm_term=.1b35d6134447&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;graphics&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;politics&amp;#x2F;trump-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.aip.org&amp;#x2F;fyi&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;trump-budget-cuts-noaa-16-slashes-research-funding-even-deeper&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.aip.org&amp;#x2F;fyi&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;trump-budget-cuts-noaa-16-slash...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Trump, Congress approve largest U.S. research spending increase in a decade</title><url>http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/updated-us-spending-deal-contains-largest-research-spending-increase-decade</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>learc83</author><text>Here is Trump&amp;#x27;s tweet on what he thinks of the domestic spending increase.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Got $1.6 Billion to start Wall on Southern Border, rest will be forthcoming. Most importantly, got $700 Billion to rebuild our Military, $716 Billion next year...most ever. &lt;i&gt;Had to waste money on Dem giveaways&lt;/i&gt; in order to take care of military pay increase and new equipment.&amp;quot; (emphasis mine)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Trump, Congress approve largest U.S. research spending increase in a decade</title><url>http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/updated-us-spending-deal-contains-largest-research-spending-increase-decade</url></story>