Although a disease pandemic continues to plague the United States, a large portion of the economy has collapsed, unemployment has reached the catastrophic levels of the Great Depression, and the nation is torn by upheaval over racism, President Trump's top priority remains "winning" an arms race with other countries.  This is reflected not only in his proposed federal budget, which earmarks most discretionary spending for the military, but in his strong support for weapons programs costing trillions of dollars and his scrapping of nuclear arms control treaties.