What’s Getting Cut in Trump’s Budget?

What’s getting cut in Trump’s budget

Mandatory Primarily Medicare, Social Security and interest on the debt Discretionary 27% Defense Everything else The proposed spending increase Defense $54B increase Border wall $2.6B increase School choice $1.4B increase Discretionary 27% Mandatory 73% Everything else Defense Primarily Medicare, Social Security and interest on the debt Border wall School choice $1.4B $2.6B $54B Defense spending increase Environmental Protection Agency -31% -29% State Dept.

Far more disturbing to me is that 73% of the federal budget is untouchable — and growing. 

Here’s an idea: freeze all federal spending until the debt is reduced to zero. 

Via the WaPo: 

On Thursday, the Trump administration released a preliminary 2018 budget proposal, which details many of the changes the president wants to make to the federal government’s spending. The proposal covers only discretionary, not mandatory, spending.

2017 FEDERAL BUDGET, RELEASED IN 2016

Discretionary

27%

Mandatory

73%

Everything

else

Defense

Primarily Medicare,

Social Security and

interest on the debt

SOME 2018 PROPOSED SPENDING INCREASES

The increases would come out of non-defense discretionary programs.

Border

wall

School

choice

This includes most of the operating budget for executive departments and agencies.

$1.4B

$2.6B

$54B

Defense spending increase

To pay for an increase in defense spending, a down payment on the border wall and school voucher programs, among other things, funding was cut from the discretionary budgets of other executive departments and agencies. The Environmental Protection Agency, the State Department and the Agriculture Department took the hardest hits. The proposal also eliminates funding for 19 agencies.