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Donald Trump called $ 163 billion in federal expenses in a radical budgetary proposal that his administration's programs consider “awake”, “waste” or “armed against the Americans who work ordinary”.
In a budget BluePrint submitted on Friday at the Congress, the American president was put pressure for non -defensive expenses to be reduced by 22.6% to the lowest level since 2017 in parallel with a sharp increase in the defense budget.
Trump's plan would reduce billions of dollars spent before foreign aid, health care, education and the environment, codifying many cuts implemented by the so-called Ministry of Government.
Russ Vought, head of the management and budget office, said that current expenses were “contrary to the needs of ordinary ordinary workers and tilted to finance non -governmental niche organizations and higher education establishments that have engaged in radical sex and antithetical climatic ideologies”.
Trump's budgetary list of budgetary wishes when he intensifies his assault against the administrative state. Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, and Doge are leading the radical effort to reduce the size of the federal government.
But many measures will face a difficult battle at Congress, where Trump's Republican Party holds a slim majority in the Senate and the House of Representatives.
While the president of the room, Mike Johnson, congratulated Trump's “daring plan”, Susan Collins, president of the Senate's powerful credit of credits, said that she had “serious objections” to certain elements.
Friday’s proposal describes the president’s priorities for “discretionary” expenses, the part of the federal budget established by the Congress Credit Bill each year. It does not include “compulsory” spending in the longer term such as social security, health insurance and interest paid on federal debt.
Foreign aid would be particularly affected under Trump's proposal, with a reduction of $ 49 billion in expenditure and the triggering of the USAID, which Doge reduced to a skeleton operation.
The budget aims at what the administration has nicknamed the “globalist climate program”, reducing subsidies for renewable energies and electric vehicles.
It also reduces expenses to the Department of Education, which Trump has promised to close. The plan takes an ax to the financing of agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Internal Returned Service, which, according to him, were “armed”.
By contrasting spending reductions, the plan requires an increase in government expenditure on military security and border security as part of Trump's commitment to accelerate on illegal immigration. The defense budget would increase by 13%, while internal security would be allocated to an additional 65%.
Chuck Schumer, the main democrat of the Senate, described the budget as “heartless” and said that his party fighting the efforts of the Republican legislators to integrate it into the legislation.
“As (Trump) Guts Healthcare, Slashes Education and Hollows Out Programs families on families – he finances tax loss for billionaires and large companies,” said Schumer Written on x. “It is not only fiscally irresponsible, it is a betrayal of the workers of a morally bankrupt president.”
