In 1st budget, Trump to push conservative view of government

Spending on border security and enforcement also will be increased.

Trump’s first budget will be unveiled Thursday, offering Americans an opportunity to understand his priorities as president.

Although Republicans control both the House and the Senate, Trump’s “skinny budget” is likely to face political hurdles.

“The president is going to be lucky if he gets 10 percent of the cuts that he’s asking for”, said Stan Collender, a federal budget expert at Qorvis MSL Group, a Washington-based public relations firm.

The defense increases are matched by cuts to other programs so as to not increase the $488 billion federal deficit.

The Environmental Protection Agency will also be hit particularly hard, with more than quarter of its budget set for elimination, taking funding at the agency down to the lowest level in 40 years. But to offset the $54 billion increase in military spending he will seek, Trump will ask for cuts in spending on housing, the environment, government research, and foreign assistance. “There won’t be a zero next to it, but the policy is that we are ending involvement with the Corporation for Public broadcasting”. He is still expected to sign an order asking the EPA to reconsider the Clean Power Plan carbon rules, as well as address an Obama administration coal-leasing moratorium. For the 2018 part of the blueprint, Mr. Trump will request $2.6 billion for the wall. But it is unlikely departments would be able to “shrink the role of government”, as Mulvaney put it, without also shrinking the size of the workforce.

The proposed cuts are causing turmoil in the agency and among stakeholders.

But now that he’s been confirmed, if the Post reporting is accurate, Secretary Carson would be signing off on a almost $2 billion cut to operating and capital funds for maintenance that fight these problems in homes, which in turn keeps children healthy. “You will not see a spreadsheet that goes line by line through the budget”.

Some budget items appear to be at odds with Trump’s rhetoric. If this week’s budget does indeed cut (or even eliminate funding outright) for the New & Small Starts transit program which exists explicitly to help metro areas of all sizes build new transit systems, the projects in that pipeline could be immediately threatened, as will their promises of supporting economic development & improved mobility. It would cut some $427 million to regional pollution cleanup programs, including in the Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay.

“If they have a different way to accomplish that, we are more than interested in talking to them”, Mulvaney said.

“That is not a commentary on policy”, Mulvaney said. He added that Trump prefers to invest in cities’ infrastructure and school choice. Democrats will oppose numerous cuts and will likely insist that similar caps on domestic spending be eliminated.

“If there is a defined constituency, it’s very hard to reverse course on something folks are accustomed to receiving”, Trey Childress, the governor’s budget director, said at the time.

The White House will release a budget blueprint Thursday that includes $603 billion for defense in 2018 as well as an additional $30 billion in defense spending this year, said Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget.

During his campaign, Trump promised to try and leave the programs untouched, claiming that Republicans’ plans to cut them lost the party the 2012 presidential election.

With few details available in the budget outline, it is unclear what kind of reorganization the administration envisions at NIH, the crown jewel of USA biomedical research.

Peter Yeo, president of the Better World Campaign, a group that works to strengthen ties between the U.S. and United Nations, shares Tingley’s assessment that Trump’s initial budget proposal is unlikely to pass Congress without substantial changes.