Donald Trump lifted the veil on Friday on the draft of his draft budget, marking an assumed break with federal social and environmental policies. The text, still at the draft stage, provides for a radical budget turn: massive cuts in civil spending, up to $ 163 billion, for the benefit of a 13 % increase in the defense budget and a jum of 65 % for internal security.
Under the guise of “reducing or removing Woke diverted Woke programs against average Americans”, the White House intends to refocus public action on conservative priorities. Many federal programs are targeted: climate, health, research, international development, education. The cuts would affect both the USAID agency and the NIH (National Institutes of Health), the budget of which would be amputated by almost half, from 48 to 27 billion dollars.
The end of “far left priorities”
This budgetary project, which still includes any tax measure – a second text is expected in May – constitutes a declaration of political intention. He reflects Donald Trump’s priorities. “American development aid has been directed to extreme left priorities,” said the executive, which announces the abolition of subsidies to reproductive health programs in Afghanistan, Syria and Africa. In the viewfinder: policies perceived as “woke”, especially in terms of gender or diversity.
The White House also attacks scientific and climatic agencies, which it accuses of promoting a “climate alarmism” and of “radicalizing the students”. The NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) would thus see its strongly reduced research budget. As for NASA, it would be forced to abandon its mission to return from Martian samples to refocus on sending astronauts to Mars.
Internal security above all
Security services, conversely, are boosted by this offensive budgetary orientation. The text promises to finance “massive evictions” and slow down the benefits granted to migrants in an irregular situation. At a press conference, the White House officials said they were “united” behind the reform objectives, despite immediate criticism. The chief of the Democrats in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, denounced “an attack in good standing against the Americans who work hard”.
Our file on the United States
The congress will now have to take up this text to start writing the twelve finance laws which, each year, make up the federal budget. But with a divided Senate and resident ideological fracture lines, the legislative course promises to be long and conflicting.
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