Trump budget would cut $4.4T in spending, boosting defense while slashing safety nets, foreign aid
Trump budget would cut $4.4T in spending, boosting defense while slashing safety nets, foreign aid
Trump's budget proposal includes "wildly large" request for ICE funding
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Trump unveils $4.8 trillion budget that backtracks on deal with Congress
The Trump budget proposes slashing Commerce Department funding by 37 percent, the Environmental Protection Agency by 26 percent, the Department of Housing and Urban Development by 15 percent, the Department of Health and Human Services by 9 percent and the Education Department by 8 percent.
It seeks an 8 percent cut to USDA's budget, a 21 percent cut to the State Department and foreign aid and an 11 percent cut to the Labor Department. It would reduce funding for Energy Department by 8 percent.
Though the budget forecasts a $1 trillion deficit for 2020 and a $966 billion deficit in 2021, it lays out a plan for eliminating the deficit over 15 years, a longer timeframe than the typical decade-long budget window.
To do so,
Trump would cut domestic spending while reducing costs to Medicaid and Medicare.
The administration would seek to reduce costs by capping or block granting Medicare benefits,
adding work requirements to a slew of medical and anti-poverty programs or implementing changes that might otherwise lower the costs of Medicare and Medicaid.