Live updates: Trump proposes to reduce national expenditure to the lowest level of the state-of-the-art era

Mr. Trump proposed a limitation of financing for some federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, which called legislators to reduce money to avoid police tax in the Internet Revenue Service. He recommended a hit of billions of funds that facilitate finance spotless water projects. The president reserved some of the deepest cuts of education, health and science, including the National Institutes of Health and Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in which their budgets would reduce by about half.

Democrats immediately gathered Mr. Trump for their proposal. Senator Chuck Schumer from Modern York, the leader of the Senate minority, called it “without heart” and “assault on demanding -working Americans.” Even some Republicans questioned Mr. Trump’s budget, although others, like speaker Mike Johnson, supported the plan.

Mr. Trump also asked Congress to limit, if not eliminating billions of dollars in federal assistance to facilitate the poorest Americans. First of all, the White House called for reconfiguring federal programs that provide facilitate for renting low -income families, exceeding facilitate by over $ 26 billion in the next tax year. And the administration proposed a solution to a federal initiative, supported by some Republicans, which helps needy families in paying monthly heating bills.

In one of the few increases in expenses included in the budget, Trump asked the legislators to strengthen expenses in the Internal Security Department by over $ 43 billion, which gives his work on the breakdown of immigration, deportation and building a wall along the American-Sexic border. The president also asked for over $ 1 trillion for a military next financial year.

However, he asked the legislators to approve this growth essentially on the principle, as part of a wider legislative package-one of this year-aimed at developing the president’s tax program. This approach livid some Republicans who signaled that they would strive for a greater boost in military expenditure as part of the annual financing process of agency and government programs.

“It is special how much time the president’s advisers spend talks about restoring peace through strength, taking into account how clearly they were reluctant to invested in national defense or other critical instruments of national power,” said Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, a former leader of the Republican Senate, in a statement that has been compressed by the “Book of Administrative”.

For Mr. Trump, the budget served to formalize his conservative vision and destructive reorganization of the government, a campaign, which has already closed the entire agencies and rejected thousands of federal employees without a clear approval of the congress.

Some of the proposed military increases of Mr. Trump could benefit to Elon Musk, a technological billionaire

Mr. Trump’s budget supported the creation of a up-to-date rocket defense shield and the renovated “Dominance in space” campaign. Both are areas where Mr. Musk and his rocket company, Spacex, could win the main contracts financed from any boost in expenses.

In the letter on Friday accompanying the Russell expenditure plan T. Vought, the leader of the Budget Budget Office of the White House, said that the administration issued his statement after the “tough review of expenses on the line on the line.”

Mr. Vought added that the president tried to eradicate the money “contrary to the needs of ordinary working Americans and tilted towards financing the niche, non -governmental organizations and higher education institutions involved in radical gender and climate ideologies against opposing American lifestyle.”

Sharon Parrott, president of the Lewic Budget Center and Political Priorities, said that many budget changes considered by Mr. Trump seemed to be low -income Americans, especially those who rely on government services.

“This is the last rejection of some of what he promised on the campaign trail when it comes to being a president who wanted to serve people fighting on the margins of the economy,” she said.

Mr. Trump’s proposal is not a law. In total, about $ 1.7 trillion, after taking into account the full set of changes in expenses that the president is looking for, the budget only serves the formal guide of the Congress, in which he immediately generated an objection.

“President Trump explained his priorities for the day: he wants directly Defund programs that facilitate working Americans, while he measures huge tax reliefs in billionaires like him and raises taxes from Americans from middle class with reckless tariffs,” Senator Patty Murray from Washington, leading in the Committee, said in a statement by means.

Criticism was not constrained to Democrats, because the Republicans also aroused an alarm about cuts of some programs that serve the most needy Americans. Presenting his “sedate reservations”, Senator Susan Collins, a republican Maine, who manages the Committee on Men, added in the statement: “Ultimately, Congress contains the power of the handbag.”

When spending a budget, Mr. Trump prepared the ground under what is a complicated, monthly process of financing the government and avoiding closing before the existing expenditure agreement expires on September 30. By introducing this fight, many Republicans repeated the desire of Mr. Trump to reduce federal expenses, although the fighting GOP factions sometimes did not agree.

Party legislators also raced to potentially identify the trillions of cuts, which can include in order to finance a related package, which would expand a set of expirying tax reductions for families and companies, one of the president’s signatures – and the most costly – priorities of economic policy.

But Mr. Trump’s proposal has an additional meaning. He and his best budgetary advisor, Mr. Vought, subscribe to the idea that the commander of the Chief uses the extensive authorization to stop or cancel expenses, even if the Congress instructions differently. Their view traveled the path of administration to snail-paced down, freeze or cancel billions of dollars in funds, causing a wide range of lawsuits and, which prompted more than three dozen ongoing federal investigations regarding their activities.

On Friday, Mr. Trump’s proposal left an indexidant one of the most critical questions that Washington and his finances faced. The national fiscal trajectory was mute, even when the president tries to reduce taxes in a expansive and costly legislative package, which has significant implications for a debt of $ 36 trillion in the country.

“It will turn out what the rest of the president’s proposal will bring, and there is still a question about the value of many dollars, or the law on agreeing,” said Maya Macguinas, president of the Federal Budget Committee, a group, which is in favor of a reduction of the deficit.

The up-to-date budget of the president did not concern the future of federal benefit programs, including social insurance, Medicare and Medicaid, which constitute the largest share in federal expenses every year. Some Republicans are particularly interested in thinking about Medicaid, which provides health insurance for penniless families as a source of savings that can be paid for tax reductions.

The administration is expected to send these details in the full budget to the Congress this month.

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