This plan testifies to a desire to rage against diversity programs and initiatives aimed at fighting climate change. However, he does not specify the president’s intentions concerning income tax, customs duties, social programs or the budget deficit, a sign of the challenge that Trump is confronted when he promises to reduce taxes and reimburse federal debt without seriously harming economic growth.
Budgets are not laws, but serve as a benchmark for the debates for the future fiscal year. Often considered a declaration of values, this first budget since the return of the republican billionaire to the White House is of particular importance. Indeed, it makes it possible to define the objectives of the second term of Donald Trump, alongside his party at the Congress.
The president of the House of Representatives, the Republican Mike Johnson, said that the plan testified to a rigorous budgetary discipline given the problems of constantly high deficits. The budget published on Friday also included any forecast concerning public loans.
“President Trump’s plan guarantees that each dollar federal taxpayers spent is used at the service of the American people, not for a plethoric bureaucracy or partisan projects,” said Johnson.
A democratic senator, Patty Murray, warned that budget cuts could ultimately be more draconian than those proposed by the administration, stressing that the budget does not provide for funding for programs such as Head Start, a preschool program for disadvantaged children.
“President Trump clearly displayed his priorities: he wants to purely and simply remove the financing of the programs that help American workers, while granting massive tax alternatives to billionaires like him and increasing the taxes of the middle class with his inconsiderate customs rights,” said Mme Murray.
Decrease in social and health budgets
The budget aims to reduce discretionary expenses by 7.6 % next year, but provides for a 13 % increase in national security spending.
The State Department and International Programs would lose 84 % of their funds and receive 9.6 billion US, a reduction that reflects the efforts made by the Ministry of Government efficiency (DOGE) of the Elon Musk Advisor.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development would undergo a reduction of US 33.6 billion, while that of health and social services would receive US less and that the expenses of the education department would be reduced by US 12 billion.
More for defense
Defense would receive additional US 1,3.3 billion and indoor security 42.3 billion US more.
-The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the FBI would undergo losses, while the energy aid program for low -income households would simply be deleted. In addition, 980 million US less would be allocated to students in work -study programs and similar -scale budget cuts are planned for continuing education and learning English.
The centers for the control and prevention of diseases would lose nearly 3.6 billion US as part of this plan, while the National Health Institutes would undergo a sharp reduction of almost 18 billion US. The budget would remove more than US 15 billion intended for infrastructure programs related to climate change, as well as US 1.3 billion from the American ocean and atmospheric observation agency.
The White House budgetary plan comes as Donald Trump has unilaterally imposed tax increases that can reach hundreds of billions of dollars in the form of customs duties, triggering a trade war that worries consumers, CEOs and foreign leaders in terms of possible economic slowdown.
Administration officials said that a more complete budget would soon be available, with plans to tackle the causes of the annual deficit. The country’s federal budget, estimated at more than 7,000 billion US, is constantly increasing, with annual deficits quickly approaching US 2000 billion and annual interest payments on debt of almost 1,000 billion US.
This situation is mainly due to the high rise in emergency expenses linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, to the modifications of the tax code which have reduced the revenues and upwards of medicare, Medicaid and other programs, largely intended to cover the country’s health needs in the face of the aging of the population. The national debt, which amounts to US $ 36,000 billion, explodes.
Upcoming shields
Democrats are ready to attack President Trump’s budget, additional proof of the will of the Republican administration to slash the government programs on which the Americans depend.
The Congress is already plunged into the drafting of the vast bill of the president, providing for tax reductions, discounts of expenditure and reinforced financing for the massive expulsions of the administration – a plan which, unlike the budgetary plan, would have force of law.
But deep differences remain between the Republicans, who try to have this ambitious bill adopted despite the objections of the Democrats.
It is the Congress, under its constitutional powers, which decides on spending plans, approves bills authorizing federal programs and finances via the process of assigning credits. Often, this system is defaulting, forcing legislators to adopt provisional spending bills to maintain government funding and avoid federal paralysis.
Russell Vought, director of the United States management and budget office, warned that this budgetary restriction program would be a first among others, the Trump administration thus testing the conference legislators to officially vote in favor of a reduction in funds.
