'A Moral Obscenity': Trump Budget Pairs Record Military Boost With Billions in Cuts to Social Programs

[Brenda]

President Donald Trump’s White House released a budget proposal on Friday that pairs an unprecedented, debt-exploding $1.5 trillion in military spending with tens of billions of dollars in cuts to domestic agencies and education, healthcare, climate, and housing programs.

Trump’s budget request for fiscal year 2027, which must be approved by Congress, includes $73 billion in total cuts to nondefense spending while boosting military outlays by 42%—or nearly $500 billion—compared to current levels.

Programs cut or eliminated in the proposed budget—under the guise of slashing “woke programs” and “ending the Green New Scam”—include the Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Justice program, Community Services Block Grants, electric vehicle charging subsidies, renewable energy initiatives at the Interior Department, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing.

The budget proposal also calls for cuts to the already-depleted Internal Revenue Service, without offering specific figures.

How can there be any question that America is under attack.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-2027-budget

[Disaffected]

1. How convenient...

The war gives him yet another an excuse to cut government spending on some of the most needed programs.

An obscenity of a presidency and a person.