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President Donald Trump on Friday released his budget proposals — slashing domestic spending to help lower the deficit while also allowing vital new investments in defense.
The so-called “skinny” spending blueprint will guide the House and Senate in producing the “big, beautiful bill” settling tax policy as well as the contours of the federal budget for the next year.
Calling the proposal “a bold blueprint that reflects the values of hardworking Americans and the commitment to American strength and prosperity,” House Speaker Mike Johnson praised Trump’s plan as ensuring that “every federal taxpayer dollar spent is used to serve the American people, not a bloated bureaucracy.”
The White House plan does exactly that by slashing billions from corrupt Biden-era “climate”outlays, reining in federal subsidies for campus bureaucracies pushing woke ideologies and ending foreign aid that doesn’t address real US security needs.
Thus, the National Institutes of Health will get well-deserved $18 billion haircut for having funded “wasteful spending, misleading information, risky research, and the promotion of dangerous ideologies that undermine public health.”
Trump’s 40-page budget plan outlines $163 billion in cuts to discretionary spending to reduce deficits — while boosting military spending to more than $1 trillion. --->READ MORE HERE
President Trump unveiled his 2026 budget outline Friday, proposing cuts totaling $163 billion to education, housing, medical research, foreign aid funding, energy and environmental protection — while seeking to boost defense spending to more than $1 trillion.
The $163 billion cut in non-defense discretionary spending is a 22.6% reduction from current levels, according to an outline of the budget released by the White House.
The proposed cuts to government funding are in line with Trump’s greater mission to cut bureaucracy via the Department of Government Efficiency — and DOGE and the White House were “joined at the hip” writing the outline, according to an administration official.
Meanwhile, the president proposed bringing the total defense budget to $1.01 trillion — but will only achieve that if another $119 billion is passed as part of a reconciliation bill working its way through Congress.
The defense budget calls for the elimination of “woke” and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs; a down-payment on a “Golden Dome for America” missile defense system; and additional funds for shipbuilding, US space exploration, and next-generation F-47 fighter jets as well as a 3.8% pay bump for US troops.
The administration is also calling for $175 billion as part of the reconciliation bill “to, at long last, finally secure our border,” of which the Department of Homeland Security would get $43.8 billion in the next fiscal year to carry out mass deportations and to help finish a border wall, among other priorities.
Without separate tranches from reconciliation, the 2026 defense budget stands at $892.6 billion and non-defense spending sits at $557.4 billion.
As part of Trump’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission, at least $500 million would be handed to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “to tackle nutrition, physical activity, healthy lifestyles, over-reliance on medication and treatments, the effects of new technological habits, environmental impacts, and food and drug quality and safety across HHS.”
Human space exploration is also getting a big boost in the proposal, with $647 million more allocated for Mars-focused programs than in fiscal year 2025.
The Transportation Department would get a more than $2.9 billion boost to hire more air traffic controllers and build out the nation’s port, freight and shipping infrastructure.
Congress will still have to come up with their own budget plan, which could take months to hammer out.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought in a Friday letter to Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Susan Collins (R-Maine) touted the “unprecedented” increase in defense spending and border security. --->READ MORE HERE
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