- Trump is looking for a big boost in domestic security expenses.
- The budgetary plan aims to reduce non -defensive discretionary expenses by 23%.
- Critics claim that the budget reduces the necessary services to American workers.
Washington: The administration of American president Donald Trump proposed a reduction of $ 163 billion on Friday to the federal budget which would greatly reduce expenses in areas such as education and housing next year, while increasing border defense and security expenses.
The administration said that the proposed budget would increase internal security expenditure by almost 65% compared to the levels adopted by 2025.
Non -defensive discretionary expenses – a budget tranche that excludes massive social security and medication programs as well as the increase in interest payments on the country’s debt – would be reduced by 23% to the lowest level since 2017, said the White House management and budget office in a press release.
The proposed budget would adapt to more than $ 2 billion in the internal income for tax collection service.
Trump’s first budget since the recovery office has been looking to keep its promises to strengthen expenditure in border security while reducing the federal bureaucracy. The Democrats of Congress castigated the interior expenses and too serious expenses, and some Republicans have called to stimulate defense spending and other areas.
“At this critical moment, we need a historic budget – the one who ends our decline, puts the Americans first and offers unprecedented support for our military and interior security,” said OMB, Russ Vought, in the press release.
The federal government has a lot of growing debts of 36 billions of dollars, and some tax conservatives and budget experts are concerned about Trump’s proposal to extend its 2017 tax reductions.
The lean budget is an overview of the priorities of the administration which will offer republican credits to the congress a plan to start creating bills of expenditure. Trump also pushes the congress under republican control to extend the 2017 tax reductions promulgated during his first mandate, which, according to non -partisan forecasters, could add 5 billions of dollars to the country’s debt.
The American republican senator Susan Collins, the best appropriate in the room, reacted coldly.
“This request came to the late congress, and the key details are still pending. Based on my initial examination, however, I have serious objections,” said Collins, Maine. She cited the concerns that defense expenses were too weak and worried about the programs to help Americans at low income heating their house.
“In the end, the congress holds the power of the bag,” said Collins.
State, education hit
The budget proposal provides for a reduction of $ 50 billion in the State Department because it absorbs the American agency for international development.
The proposal provides for a reduction of $ 2.49 billion to the IRS, which, according to a White House budget manager, would end the armament of the application of the IRS of former President Joe Biden. Non -partisan analysts say that IRS reductions can harm tax collection and thus contribute to the deficit of the nation.
The OMB also called for clear cuts on the NASA Moon program.
The proposal strengthens Trump’s promise to close or reduce the Ministry of Education considerably. It would preserve the financing of children from low -income families, but would reduce approximately 15% of the total budget of the ministry.
The financing of the Housing and Urban Development Department, which oversees housing aid programs, would be reduced almost in two.
“Donald Trump’s days to claim to be a populist are over,” the New York New York’s best democrat said in a statement. “His policies are nothing less than a total assault against workers. While he hinders health care, reduces education and hollow of the programs on which families count – he finances tax alternatives for billionaires and large companies.”
The administration indicates that the budget would increase discretionary defense expenses by 13%, but the republican senator Roger Wicker of the Mississippi, president of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that defense expenses remain at levels fixed by the Democratic predecessor of Trump, Biden, which is equivalent to a reduction due to inflation.
The officials said that the White House believes that the Republicans at Congress will add more defense expenses to the final budget.
Asked about Wicker’s criticism, a senior CAMB official said that there was still work to do in Capitol Hill to provide full republican support.
The annual budget request for the White House includes economic forecasts and detailed proposals on expenditure levels for each agency for the financial year that starts on October 1. Expenses for the year 2024 amounted to 6.8 dollars, according to the Congressal Budget Office.
Legislators often make substantial changes to the White House budget request, but Trump orders an unusual influence on republican legislators and can obtain a large part of what he is looking for.
The Congress Republicans hope to adopt the bill on tax reduction by July 4 and work to fill the internal divisions concerning proposed federal expenses to pay it. They may have to take into account the growing stress in the American economy of Trump’s pricing increases that upset world trade.
The White House budget provides for an additional $ 500 million in discretionary expenses to strengthen border security and help Trump’s thrust for mass expulsions, as well as $ 766 million to obtain funding for border security technology and funding to maintain 22,000 border patrol agents and hire additional customs and border protection agents.
The administration always strives to create a separate termination package to codify the cuts already made by the government’s Ministry of Efficiency, said a budget manager.
Republican senators demanded this process – stipulated by law, because the administration retains the funds previously approved by the congress.
