The upcoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump will likely augur a larger US defense budget, though less security aid for American partners abroad, like Ukraine, sources and analysts say, reports the American weekly Defense News.

Republican Party aides in Congress, when asked by Defense News, signaled confidence that a second Trump term would increase the military budget.

The aforesaid weekly predicts that with Republicans gaining control of both houses of Congress after the election, the future fate of large packages of US military aid to Ukraine will become "far less certain."

US defense spending has increased considerably as a result of Trump's coming to power in 2017, Defense News notes.

By the count of Mackenzie Eaglen, an expert on the defense budget at the American Enterprise Institute, Trump oversaw a massive hike in defense spending during his first term—some $225 billion higher than projected from the late years of President Barack Obama. Defense hawks in Congress are counting on a repeat of that trend, and will have more power to force it.

Clear telltales will be the nominees to become secretary of defense and director of the Office of Management and Budget, added Mackenzie Eaglen.

She argued that Taiwan and Israel had better chances of maintaining American aid.