Trump’s proposed budget drastically reduces expenses
President Donald Trump wants to concentrate the US budget for 2026 on national security and defense, while reducing other public expenses, the White House announced on Friday.
This first project includes a 13% increase in the defense budget and a 65% increase in the internal security budget. At the same time provides 22 % discounts of non -ilarded government spending, ie $ 163 billion, at a time when the Trump administration was in charge of Elon Musk to reduce federal expenses, with thousands of redundancies, France Presse reports.
The leader of the Democrats in the Senate immediately denounced the text: ‘His policy is nothing but a large-scale attack against Americans who work hard,’ Chuck Schumer said in a statement. While eviscerating the health system, attacks education and reduces the programs on which families depend, it funds tax exemptions for billionaires and large corporations’.
The budget proposal of a president who made the fight against illegal immigration one of his priorities focus on border security to finance ‘mass deportations and to stop the unlimited wave of illegal immigrants to the detriment of American citizens’, according to the White House.
This so-called ‘flexible budget’ establishes the executive’s priorities. A more complete version will then be presented to the Congress for approval.
Many of the discounts desired by the Republican government concern programs considered to be ‘Woke’, a pejorative term used by conservatives to describe policies to promote diversity or university research in the field of racial or gender discrimination.
