President Donald Trump’s 2026 budget proposal has garnered support from several Republicans involved in the budget drafting process for a budget proposal that includes a $163 billion cut across the federal government.
The president’s Page 46 Budget Planning It is incomplete and already includes multiple proposals that GOP lawmakers have advocated over the years, including supporting charter schools. Ending fund for abortion providers. Reduction of foreign aid programs related to diversity, climate, or gender initiatives.
R-Okla. House Approximate Budget Committee Chairman Tom Cole called most Trump’s iconic framework a “clear starting point” as he prepares to gather 12 spending bills that will provide money to federal agencies for the program to spend annually on the program.
Lawmakers never passed the 2025 budget; Instead, it passes through three consecutive, continuous resolutions The government will remain open until September 30th.
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By that date, Republican budgeters must decide which items from Trump’s budget laundry list to incorporate. Here are some budget recommendations that GOP lawmakers may find attractive:
- Approximately $18 billion reduction in gender ideology and race-related initiatives within the National Institutes of Health
- More than $15 billion cuts or clawbacks related to renewable energy and climate programs established under the Biden administration
- It targets US $2.4 billion cuts to foreign aid, targeting “wake-up” programs
- A $6.2 billion cut in global family planning programs.[prevent] Pro-aboration agenda due to promotions overseas in taxpayer dollars. ”
- The reduction to refugee and unaccompanied aliens to children’s programs is $1.9 billion.
- $3.5 billion cuts to “awakening” and overlapping programs within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- $1 billion cuts to “reduce harm” drug programs within substance abuse and mental health services management
- The administration said it cuts $2.4 billion in the Environmental Protection Agency’s state revolving fund because “states should be responsible for funding their own water infrastructure projects.”
- IRS cuts by $2.4 billion
- FBI’s $545 million cut to “reform and streamline” agents
- $247 million in traffic security management (TSA) reductions due to failed audits
- $468 million cut to offices focused on gun control within the ATF
House Budget Committee Chairman Jodie Arlington, R-Texas, called Trump’s proposal “a combat plan to restore economic freedom and fiscal sanity.”
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But Democrats call the budget a “disaster,” ranked Energy and Commerce Committee member Frank Paron (DN.J.), who claimed that “Americans will die” if Trump’s budget proposal’s renewable energy program is cut.
“Trump doesn’t believe in the government. This budget continues his relentless attack on federal agencies whose mission is to protect the health and well-being of the American people,” Palone said in a statement.
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