{"id":8248,"date":"2025-05-02T17:09:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T17:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=8248"},"modified":"2025-05-02T17:09:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T17:09:29","slug":"trumps-2026-budget-proposal-calls-for-163b-in-cuts-to-federal-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=8248","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s 2026 budget proposal calls for $163B in cuts to federal spending"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The White House on Friday released President Donald Trump’s proposed budget for the 2026 fiscal year, which calls for $163 billion in cuts to federal spending.<\/p>\n

Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, in a letter to Congress alongside the proposal, said the cuts to discretionary funding would lead to “significant savings.”<\/p>\n

“The President is proposing base non-defense discretionary budget authority $163 billion — 22.6 percent below — current-year spending, while still protecting funding for homeland security, veterans, seniors, law enforcement, and infrastructure,” Vought wrote.<\/p>\n

While budget proposals are essentially wish-list for the administration, they serve to illustrate the president’s priorities and what the White House hopes is a jumping off point for negotiations with Congress.<\/p>\n

The cuts proposed would come from the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, USAID and the Environmental Protection Agency, among others.<\/p>\n

However, Trump is proposing a 13% increase to defense spending, which would bring it to $1.01 trillion for the next fiscal year.<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump arrives to give a commencement address at the University of Alabama, May 1, 2025, in Tuscaloosa, Ala.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The administration’s also proposing $175 billion to go toward the southern border.<\/p>\n

Sen. Patty Murray, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, issued a critical statement on President Trump’s budget proposal, expressing alarm the request could severely slash programs many Americans rely on.<\/p>\n

“President Trump has made his priorities clear as day: he wants to outright defund programs that help working Americans while he shovels massive tax breaks at billionaires like himself and raises taxes on middle-class Americans with his reckless tariffs,” Murray said in the statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis preliminary budget proposal is exceptionally light on details we desperately need — but this much is clear: Trump wants to eviscerate programs that matter most to working families,” Murray said.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n

ABC News’ Allison Pecorin contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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