- Trump seeks a great boost in national security spending.
- The budget plan aims to reduce non -defensive discretionary expenditure from 23%.
- Critics say the budget reduces the services necessary by Americans who work.
Washington: The administration of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, proposed on Friday a cut of $ 163 billion to the federal budget that would drastically reduce the expense in areas that include education and housing next year, while increasing the disbursements for defense and border security.
The administration said that the proposed budget would increase national security spending by almost 65% of 2025 promulgated levels.
The non -defensive discretionary expenditure, a portion of the budget that excludes massive social security and Medicare programs, as well as the increase in the cost of interest payments in the nation's debt, would be reduced by 23% to the lowest level since 2017, said the Office of Management and Budget of the White House in a statement.
The proposed budget would split more than $ 2 billion of the Internal Tax Collection Income Service.
Trump's first budget since claiming the office seeks to fulfill his promises to increase border security expenditure while cutting the federal bureaucracy. The Democrats of Congress issued the cuts in domestic spending as too severe, and some Republicans asked to increase defense spending and other areas.
“In this critical moment, we need a historical budget, one that ends the financing of our decline, puts the Americans first and provide unprecedented support to our military and national security,” said OMB director Russ Vought in the statement.
The federal government has a growing debt battery of $ 36 billion, and some tax conservatives and budget experts concern that Trump's proposal to extend its 2017 tax cuts will be added.
The so -called thin budget is a summary of the administration priorities that will give the Republican appropriators in Congress a plan to start preparing expense bill. Trump is also pressing Congress controlled by Republicans to extend the 2017 tax cuts promulgated in his first mandate, which according to non -partisan forecasts could add $ 5 billion to the nation's debt.
The American Republican senator Susan Collins, the appropriate main chamber, reacted coldly.
“This request has been late for Congress, and the key details are still pending. According to my initial review, however, I have serious objections,” said Collins, from Maine. She cited the concerns that the defense expense was too low and worried about the cuts to the programs to help the low -income Americans heat their homes.
“Ultimately, it is Congress that has the power of the bag,” Collins said.
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The budget proposal requires a $ 50 billion cut in the State Department, as it absorbs the US agency for international development.
The proposal requires a cut of $ 2.49 billion to the IRS, that a White House budget officer said he would end the “application weapon” of former president of former President Joe Biden. Non -partisan analysts say that IRS cuts can damage tax collection and, therefore, contribute to the nation's deficit.
OMB also requested sharp cuts in NASA's moon program.
The proposal promotes Trump's promise to close or reduce the Department of Education. It would preserve funds for children from low -income families, but would reduce about 15% of the total department budget.
The funds for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which supervises housing assistance programs, would be reduced almost halfway.
“The days of Donald Trump to pretend to be a populist are over,” said the United States Senate Democrat, Chuck Schumer from New York, in a statement. “Their policies are nothing less than a total assault on working Americans. While destroying medical attention, it cuts education and hollow in which the families of the programs trust, they are financing tax exemptions for billionaires and large corporations.”
The administration says that the budget would increase the discretionary defense spending by 13%, but Republican Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi, president of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that the defense expense remains at the levels established under the democratic predecessor of Trump Biden, which is equivalent to a cut due to inflation.
The authorities said the White House believes that Republicans in Congress will add more defense expenses to the final budget.
When asked about Wicker's criticism, a senior OMB official said there was still a job to do in Capitol Hill to guarantee complete republican support for the plan.
The White House Annual Budget application includes economic forecasts and detailed proposals on spending levels for each fiscal year agency that begins on October 1. The disbursements in fiscal year 2024 amounted to $ 6.8 billion, according to the Congress Budget Office.
Legislators often make substantial changes in the request of the White House Budget, but Trump orders an unusual influence on Republican legislators and can get much of what he is looking for.
Republicans in Congress hope to promulgate the draft tax cuts before July 4 and are working to close internal divisions on cuts proposed in federal expenditure to pay it. They may have to take into account the growing stress in the economy of the United States of Trump tariff walks that are altering global trade.
The White House budget requires additional $ 500 million in discretionary expenses to reinforce border security and help Trump's impulse for mass deportations, as well as $ 766 million to acquire border security technology funds, and funds to maintain 22,000 border patrol agents and hire additional customs and border protection officials.
The administration is still working to build a separate termination package to encode the cuts already made by the Government's efficiency department, said a budget official.
Republican senators have been demanding this process, stipulated by law, because the administration is holding funds previously approved by Congress.
