Winners And Losers Under Trump’s Budget Plan

A spokesperson said that it is too early in the budget process to speculate on what funds the state may or may not receive next year.

The prez aims to direct an extra $54 billion (a mere 1.3 percent of the $4 trillion in federal spending) to defense, taking it from other discretionary areas.

President Trump speaks to members of the U.S. Navy on March 2, 2017 in Virginia. Though the budget includes funding for the expensive border wall and billions of additional dollars for the military, the cuts to the domestic budget make up for the increases. Those investments would help boost the size of the United States military and its war machines, put a $2.6 billion down payment on construction of a Southern border wall, and fund a $4.4 billion investment to modernize healthcare for veterans.

MICK MULVANEY: We’re $20 trillion in debt.

Though our nation spends more on defense than the next seven countries combined and stories of wasteful spending are legendary, it is clear that the war on terror has taken a toll on our military personnel. We’re going to spend a lot of money, but we’re not going to spend it on programs that can not show that they actually deliver the promises they made to people. Trump is also recommending major cuts to programs at the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The budget also continues current levels of support for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a program that fights the spread and effects of HIV in Africa, providing anti-retroviral treatments for millions of patients.

Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida said cuts to the State Department – the second-biggest loser in Trump’s budget – “undermine America’s ability to keep our citizens safe”.

HHS preparedness grants: These will be restructured to “reduce overlap and administrative costs and direct resources to States with the greatest need”.

Bruce told Channel 3, there is concern about President Trump’s budget proposal which could hurt Tennesseans who depend on food banks to feed their families. It preserves funding for the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program and calls it one of the Department of Health and Human Services’ “highest priorities”.

The budget request comes after Sen.

For one thing, the new president is determined to signal America’s new role on the world stage. It is a very conservative budget, rather than populist budget.

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh held a press conference Thursday to discuss the local implications of Trump’s budget proposal, including the elimination of LIHEAP and community development block grants. This budget is really a slap in the face of the future. The National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting would all be shuttered. True, you could have eliminated the federal deficit in 2016 by cutting all $600 billion in non-defense discretionary spending-but that would have meant closing the national parks, shutting the federal courts and putting the Coast Guard in dry dock.

“He wants more money for border enforcement”.

Regarding “Trump budget bolsters military, cuts EPA funds” (March 16): An article in The New York Times on September 15, 2016, quotes Trump’s pledge “to create 25 million jobs over the next decade” disregarding that the “number of people who seek to work would have to increase more than three times as much as the economists at the budget office think likely”. President Trump threw his backing behind a so-called repeal-and-replace bill led by House Speaker Paul Ryan. It will be weeks or months before we get a true sense of what government spending will look like in the Trump era.

Low Income Home Energy Assistance program: This program is eliminated in the budget.

For the PBS NewsHour, I’m John Yang at the White House.