Trump suggests $ 163 billion

US President Donald Trump responds alongside workers in the coal industry, the day he signs energy-related executive orders in the White House of Washington, DC, USA, April 8, 2025.-Reuters
  • Trump is looking for a big boost in security costs of the home country.
  • The budget plan aims to reduce estimated estimated expenses 23%.
  • Critics say budget cuts needed by working Americans.

Washington: US President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday proposed a $ 163 billion cut to the federal budget that would reduce spending in areas, including education and housing next year, while increasing defense and border security expenses.

The administration said the proposed budget would increase the cost of security for the home country by almost 65% from 2025 adopted levels.

Non-defending discretionary expenses-the budget that excludes the massive social security and Medicare programs as well as the rising costs of interest payments on the nation’s debt-Ville being reduced by 23% to the lowest level since 2017, the White House Office of Management and budget said in a statement.

The proposed budget would split more than $ 2 billion from the tax collection Internal Revenue Service.

Trump’s first budget since the Reclaiming Office is trying to give well his promises to increase the cost of border security while cutting the federal bureaucracy. The Congress Democrats blasted the cut into domestic spending as too serious, and some Republicans called for the expenses of defense and other areas.

“At this critical moment, we need a historical budget – one that ends the funding of our decline, puts Americans first and deliver unprecedented support for our military and homeland security,” said OMB Director Russ Vought in the statement.

The federal government has a growing dollar debt pile of $ 36 trillion, and some fiscal conservatives and budget experts are concerning Trump’s proposal to extend his tax cuts in 2017 will add it.

The so -called thin budget is an overview of management priorities that will give Republican grants in Congress a plan to start creating expenses. Trump also pushes the Republican controlled congress to expand the tax cuts in 2017, adopted in his first period, which non-Partisan forecasters say they could add $ 5 trillion to the country’s debt.

Republican US Senator Susan Collins, the chamber’s top appropriation, responded coolly.

“This request is late to Congress and key information still remains excellent. Based on my first review, however, I have serious objections,” Collins said of Maine. She cited concern that defense spending was too low and worried about cuts to programs to help Americans with low income warm up their homes.

“In the end, it is Congress that has the power of the purse,” Collins said.

State, education affected

The budget proposal requires a $ 50 billion cut in the state department as it absorbs the US Agency for International Development.

The proposal calls for a reduction of $ 2.49 billion to the IRS, as an official in the White House said would end former President Joe Bid’s “Weapon on the IRS enforcement.” Non -Partisan analysts say cuts to the IRS can damage tax collection and thus contribute to the nation’s deficit.

OMB also called for sharp cuts on the NASA Moon program.

The proposal promotes Trump’s promise to shut down or reduce the Ministry of Education. It would maintain funding for children from low income families, but cut approx. 15% of the department’s total budget.

Financing for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which oversees housing aid programs, would be cut almost half.

“Donald Trump’s days of pretending to be a populist is over,” said the top US Senates Democrat Chuck Schumer of New York in a statement. “His policies are nothing less than an entire attack on hardworking Americans. When he intestines healthcare, cuts education and distributes programs that families rely on-he is banking rolls tax cuts for billionaires and large companies.”

The administration says the budget would increase the discretionary defense expenses by 13%, but Republican Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi, president of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said defense spending remains at levels set under Trump’s democratic predecessor Biden, which corresponds to a cut off due to inflation.

Officials said the White House believes that Republicans in Congress will add more defense expenses to the final budget.

When asked about Wicker’s criticism, a senior OMB official said there was still work to do on Capitol Hill to ensure full Republican support for the plan.

The annual request for the White House Budget includes financial forecasts and detailed proposals for expenditure levels for each agency for the financial year that starts on October 1st. Outlays in the 2024 financial year amounted to $ 6.8 trillion, according to the congressional budget office.

Legislators often make significant changes in the White House request, but Trump commands unusual sway over Republican lawmakers and may get much of what he is looking for.

Republicans in Congress hope to adopt the tax relief bill before July 4 and are working to bridge internal departments of proposed cuts in federal expenses to pay for it. They may need to be involved in growing stress in the US economy from Trump’s customs duties that have emerged global trade.

The White House budget calls for an additional $ 500 million in discretionary expenses to strengthen border security and help Trump’s push for mass portions as well as $ 766 million to acquire border security technology and financing to maintain 22,000 border patrol agents and hire additional customs and border protection managers.

The administration is still working to put together a separate cancellation package to codify cuts already made by the Department of Government Efficiency, a budget employee said.

Republican Senators have demanded this process – determined by law because the administration withholds funds previously approved by Congress.

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