Education, health, climate and more on chopping block and 13% rise – to over a $1tn to Pentagon – in ‘skinny budget’
Donald Trump is proposing massive cuts to social programmes like health and education while planning substantial spending increases on defense and the Department of Homeland Security, in a White House budget blueprint that starkly illustrates his preoccupation with projecting military strength and deterring migration.
Cuts of $163bn on discretionary non-defense spending would also see financial outlays slashed for environmental and non-renewable energy schemes, as well as for the FBI, an agency Trump has claimed was weaponised against him during Joe Biden’s presidency. Spending reductions are also being projected for the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.