President Donald Trump on Friday released his budget proposals — slashing domestic spending to help lower the deficit while also allowing vital new investments in defense.
The so-called “skinny” spending blueprint will guide the House and Senate in producing the “big, beautiful bill” settling tax policy as well as the contours of the federal budget for the next year.
Calling the proposal “a bold blueprint that reflects the values of hardworking Americans and the commitment to American strength and prosperity,” House Speaker Mike Johnson praised Trump’s plan as ensuring that “every federal taxpayer dollar spent is used to serve the American people, not a bloated bureaucracy.”
The White House plan does exactly that by slashing billions from corrupt Biden-era “climate”outlays, reining in federal subsidies for campus bureaucracies pushing woke ideologies and ending foreign aid that doesn’t address real US security needs.
Thus, the National Institutes of Health will get well-deserved $18 billion haircut for having funded “wasteful spending, misleading information, risky research, and the promotion of dangerous ideologies that undermine public health.”
Trump’s 40-page budget plan outlines $163 billion in cuts to discretionary spending to reduce deficits — while boosting military spending to more than $1 trillion.
Contrary to braying by congressional Democrats, Trump’s spending reductions do not touch Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security, though some program reforms can slow the growth of Medicaid and bring savings by reducing fraud.
Among the desperately needed investments in national defense: development of “Golden Dome” next-gen missile defense system, ramped up funding for naval shipyards, the sixth-generation the F-47 Next Generation combat aircraft, plus modernization of the US military’s nuclear deterrence. It’s sending a message of peace through strength.
Plus, Homeland Security is to get an extra $175 billion to secure the southern border and to send home many of the illegal migrants of the last four years.
Trump’s bold plan pushes the federal government in the direction Republicans have wanted for decades now, but lacked the resolve to pursue.
It aims to cut off special interests and insiders who’ve fed too long from the pubic purse, get the government off the back of the productive private sector and reverse the long decline of the nation’s defenses.
Now it’s up to the House and Senate to follow through.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
