Trump and Vought Propose Budget Worsening Cost-of-Living Crisis

[Uncle Joe]

Press Release

While Hardworking People Struggle to Put Gas in their Car and Food on the Table, Trump and Vought Want a Record Level of Spending on a War Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose

WASHINGTON — Today, President Trump released his fiscal year 2027 budget request. The Trump administration proposes to gut funding for public education, housing, and medical research, while seeking a record-breaking increase in war spending.

President Trump previewed his budget request when he said, “We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of day care.”

“Families and hardworking people across the country are begging for lower prices, but President Trump is ignoring them and is proposing a budget that will only make the cost-of-living crisis worse,” said House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03). “His war of choice with Iran is dragging on with no end in sight, while the cost of gas, groceries, and everyday goods is mounting day by day. Instead of addressing the needs of the public, this administration wants to decimate public education, slash housing assistance, and eviscerate medical research funding. The future this administration envisions is one where Americans are sicker, poorer, and unable to care for their children. Democrats will continue to fight for investments that meet the needs of the American people and give everyone who works hard and plays by the rules a chance to succeed.”

DeLauro continued, “Trump said earlier this week that there is no money for Medicaid, Medicare, or child care while we are fighting his ill-conceived war against Iran. While he proposes roughly half a trillion dollars in additional spending for the Pentagon, Trump wants to cut the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and not provide a single additional dollar for child care. In total, according to their own numbers, the Trump budget would cut domestic investments by $73 billion, or 10 percent. Under Trump and Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought’s plan, costs will continue to rise, Americans will be less safe and less healthy, while the corruption we have seen in this administration will become even worse.”

The Trump budget would:

Raise the Cost of Living and Harm the Economy

Increase energy costs for families and businesses by eliminating the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, turning off the heat and air conditioning and raising costs for 6 million households across the country.
Evict tens of thousands of seniors, veterans, and people with disabilities already on fixed incomes, and cut housing construction by $1.25 billion at a time when more than 771,000 people are experiencing homelessness across America.
Decimate public education, including eliminating need-based financial aid for 1.6 million students, eliminating Federal Work Study opportunities for more than 400,000 students, and eliminating vital academic services for more than 5 million English learners through the elimination of English Language Acquisition.
Cut monthly WIC benefits by $12 per person per month, a 17 percent cut, sharply limiting the increases in fruit and vegetable vouchers in WIC, which Congress decisively rejected.
Eliminate funding for the Economic Development Administration, an agency that helps create jobs, especially in rural areas. From 2018 to 2024, the EDA created or retained more than 727,000 jobs and spurred more than $80 billion in private investment.
Eliminate the Weatherization Assistance Program, which reduces energy costs for low-income families by an average of $372 per year and has weatherized more than 7 million homes since its inception. Cutting this program raises utility bills.
Gut funding for job training programs for hundreds of thousands of workers, youth, and older employees, including the complete elimination of Job Corps.
Cut IRS Enforcement, making it easier for the millionaire and billionaire tax cheats to evade paying their fair share, costing American taxpayers billions per year.
Eliminate nearly all of the Small Business Administration’s Entrepreneurial Development Programs.
Eliminate the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program, forcing more than a thousand mayors and governors relying on the reinvestment of taxpayer dollars to walk away from critical street, water, and sewer improvements and services for youth and seniors, undoing promises made to their constituents to keep their communities safe.
Eliminate Treasury’s existing Community Development Financial Institutions Program, again proposing to end support for direct, reliable, and safe financial services in low- and moderate-income communities.
Cut Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation by $1.9 billion, 63 percent, slashing investments in solar, wind, building efficiency, bioenergy, industrial energy programs, and clean transportation technologies, programs that support American manufacturing jobs and lower energy costs for consumers.
Fail to include a single additional dollar for child care despite proposing roughly half a trillion dollars in additional spending for the Pentagon.
Make Americans Less Safe

Cut funding for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and reduce the workforce by 7,500 positions after withholding paychecks from TSA personnel for more than 40 days during the Republican shutdown of DHS.
Cut FEMA Federal Assistance by $1.25 billion, continuing this administration’s campaign to dismantle federal assistance and leave our communities vulnerable to catastrophe.
Weaken our cyber defenses by cutting the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency by $443 million and eliminating over 900 positions.
Eliminate Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Office of Immigration Detention Ombudsman, and the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman Office, as well as a reduction to the Office of the Inspector General – despite the recent murders of two American citizens and a record number of deaths in DHS custody since the beginning of 2025.
Make Americans less safe by eliminating funding for grants to prevent hate crimes and protect civil rights.
Abandon our trust and treaty obligations to Native Americans, making tribal communities less safe by cutting the Bureau of Indian Affairs by 27 percent and cutting Bureau of Indian Education by 32 percent.
Slash funding for Inspectors General across the federal government, weakening efforts to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse and allowing corrupt officials to more easily abuse public trust.
Cut 30 percent of funding from diplomats and development experts working to solve global challenges such as hunger, clean water, and conflict resolution. This budget fails to demonstrate any meaningful foreign policy planning or strategy for most of the countries in the world.
Abandons allies and walks away from burden-sharing by zeroing out funding for the United Nations and its peacekeeping missions, making future conflict more likely.
Make Communities Less Healthy and More Vulnerable to Deadly Diseases

Slash biomedical research at the National Institutes of Health by $6 billion, taking away lifesaving resources to develop cures and treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, mental health disorders, opioid and substance use disorders, infectious diseases, and other conditions affecting millions of American families.
Eviscerate the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by eliminating dozens of life-saving public health programs, including HIV/AIDS prevention, tobacco prevention, asthma prevention, diabetes prevention, heart disease and stroke prevention, maternal health and safety, emergency preparedness grants to States, as well as gun violence prevention research.
Slash funding for substance use prevention and treatment programs, as well as mental health programs, at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), sabotaging recent progress in addressing the opioid crisis.
Hurt millions of people at home and abroad who face hunger by slashing the Commodity Supplemental Food Program and eliminating the Food for Peace and McGovern-Dole programs. This also harms the American farmers who will no longer see the profits from producing this urgently needed food.
Harm public health by cutting the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) budget in half (53 percent), crippling the agency’s ability to perform rigorous scientific research to protect Americans from pollutants, and eliminating its ability to understand new and emerging contaminants like PFAS.
Worsen America’s water safety and quality by slashing the EPA’s Clean Water and Drinking Water State funds, meaning thousands fewer water infrastructure projects across the country.
Increase Americans’ exposure to harmful air pollutants by eliminating air pollution control programs.

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