President's Budget Request

Tues, June 30, 2026:

• Congressional Budget Office releases “An Analysis of Spending Proposals in the President’s FY 2027 Budget” - CBO

• Vought defends President’s plan to cut non-defense spending by 10% for FY 2027 while raising defense spending by 42% to $1.5 trillion - Fiscal Times

Tues, May 12, 2026:

• Trump’s proposed ‘Golden Dome’ estimated to cost $1.2 trillion, far more than he initially said - AP

Mon, April 27, 2026:

• The Trump-class battleships are a waste of time and money. The firing of Navy Secretary John Phelan reflects Pentagon tensions. - WP

Fri, April 24, 2026:

• Lawmakers buck calls to defund low-income heating program. Bipartisan concerns raised over Trump’s budget blueprint. - Roll Call

Tues, April 21, 2026:

• Pentagon details record $1.5 trillion budget request. The nearly 50 percent jump in spending would fund many of President Donald Trump’s new military projects, but the request has to get through a skeptical Congress. - WP

Tues, April 21, 2026:

• US military pushes for boost in 2027 spending on drones and air defenses used in Iran war - AP

Fri, April 10, 2026:

• Budgets Used to Be About Fiscal Control. Not Anymore - Bloomberg

• What the Federal Budget Proposal Could Mean for Local Governments - NLC

• Trump Budget Request Proposes Zeroing Out Family Planning Funds - PAI

Thurs, April 9, 2026:

• Budget Request for FY 2027: Analysis for Counties - NACO

• For second time, Trump seeks to eliminate federal funding for tribal colleges and universities - AP

Wed, April 8, 2026:

• President Trump’s 2027 budget proposal would cut thousands of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) jobs in a push toward privatizing the agency founded in 2001 that is housed under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). - Hill

Tues, April 7, 2026:

• To Boost Military Budget, Trump Targets Popular Programs at Home. Amid the war with Iran, the president has proposed to scale back some of the programs meant to ease families’ financial burdens. - NYT
  At a private lunch last week, Mr. Trump insisted that Washington needed to prioritize “military protection” above all else… Otherwise, he said in a since-deleted video, the country could not continue to shoulder the financial burden of services including “day care,” Medicare and Medicaid. Formalizing that view in his 2027 budget, Mr. Trump… (asked) Congress to slash about $73 billion… across a wide array of domestic agencies and programs, including education, health care, housing and nutrition assistance.

• Privatization, eliminations and consolidations: Major reforms from Trump’s budget. The president’s fiscal 2027 blueprint contains significant overhauls to the work carried out by federal agencies. - GovExec

• TSA budget cuts jobs in privatization push - FNN

• Trump Seeks Nearly $11 Billion Cut to HUD Programs - NAHB

Mon, April 6, 2026:

• White House Budget Would Cut HHS Funding By 12.5% - KFF

• The President’s Nano-Budget. Budgets reveal a lot...sometimes, more so, when they reveal very little. - Substack / Steuerle

Sat, April 4, 2026:

• In the wonky world of federal budgeting is the most tired cliche of all: The president proposes, and Congress disposes. In other words, any White House budget request is nothing more than a political draft that’s ultimately going to be significantly altered — or torn to shreds — by lawmakers who hold the constitutional power of the purse. But this administration’s moves to wrest spending authority away from Congress have turned that dynamic on its head. A year of funding clawbacks, shutdowns and Supreme Court challenges has changed the way many in Washington are looking at President Donald Trump’s budget plan released Friday. Ultimately, even if Congress refuses to approve Trump’s latest funding wishes, the administration may implement many of them anyway. - Politico

Fri, April 3, 2026:

• The Trump Administration released its FY 2027 budget today—almost two months after the statutory deadline. The budget would increase defense spending by a whopping 50 percent while cutting nondefense spending 10 percent—impacting health research, K-12 and higher education, renewable energy and climate grants, low-income housing energy assistance, and community development grants. Following are articles reviewing the budget.

• President Donald Trump wants Congress to pass a $1.5 trillion defense budget alongside dramatic cuts to domestic projects - Politico

• The most head-turning elements of Trump’s 2027 budget proposal - Axios

• Trump’s military spending request would be partly offset by steep cuts to domestic programs. - NYT

• Trump Seeks $1.5 Trillion for Military, the Largest Request in Modern History. Proposal calls for cuts to nonmilitary spending, including funding for education and the EPA - WSJ

• Trump requests record-breaking budget of $1.5 trillion for Pentagon. The proposal would also make $73 billion in cuts to environmental, education and health research programs. - WP

• Trump budget seeks $1.5T in defense spending alongside cuts in domestic programs - AP

• Trump proposes massive defense budget, 10 percent cut to nondefense programs - Reuters

• Trump Budget Pairs Defense Boost, Agency Cuts - Bloomberg

• Trump’s budget would boost defense and slash domestic programs. The EPA, Small Business Administration, State Department and Labor Department would see dramatic cuts under plan - Roll Call

• Civilian agencies face 10% cuts in Trump’s 2027 budget - GovExec

• Overview of the President’s FY 2027 Budget - CRFB

Thurs, April 2, 2026:

• War Clarifies Trump’s Spending Priorities: The Military, Not Child Care

  As the White House prepares to release its 2027 budget, President Trump said military protection, not social programs, took precedence. - NYT

Fri, March 27, 2026:

• Trump to send Congress his budget request April 3. It’s still TBD whether a supplemental military funding request will come with the broader fiscal blueprint for fiscal 2027. - Politico

Wed, March 4, 2025:

• Roll Call reports, the White House tentatively aims to release President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2027 budget proposal the week of March 30. Few details of the spending plan have been disclosed, beyond Trump’s announcement that he would ask for $1.5 trillion for defense, a roughly 50 percent increase from this year’s level. Administration officials are still considering how much of that will be requested as part of the discretionary budget, and if they will ask for most of the large defense increase through a second filibuster-proof reconciliation bill in order to circumvent the need for Democratic support. (Discretionary appropriations bills require 60 votes for Senate passage; reconciliation legislation requires 50 votes.)

Sat, Feb 21, 2025:

• Trump aides struggle with how to spend $500 billion more on military. The White House budget chief was among those who internally objected to the defense secretary’s plan to increase military spending by roughly 50 percent, people familiar with the matter said. - WP

  • TrillionsWeekly Comment: Donald Trump’s wish to increase defense spending by a half trillion per year is—

    • devoid of any any intelligence or analysis of what is actually necessary for America’s defense; and

    • is entirely unaffordable for a nation that has an enormous debt cloud hanging over our future.

Fri, Feb 6, 2025:

• Appropriators urge White House to send a budget quickly - Punchbowl

Fri, Sept 26, 2025:

• Mid-Session Review Offers a Dose of Fiscal Fantasy - CRFB

Thurs, July 17, 2025:

• WH aide on skipping full budget: It ‘wasn’t in our interest’. Russell Vought, director of the White House budget office, defended the administration’s decision not to release a full federal budget. - WP

Wed, June 4, 2025:

• ‘Where’s the budget?’: GOP lawmakers implore Vought to send a full request. The OMB director appeared days after the latest White House submission left appropriators wanting. - Politico

Fri, May 30, 2025:

• Ranking Member DeLauro on Trump’s Latest Budget Proposal - House Approps Comm.

• Ranking Member Murray on President Trump’s Budget Request - Senate Approps Comm.

• White House Unveils New Details of Stark Budget Cuts; The new blueprint shows that a vast array of education, health, housing and labor programs would be hit, including aid for college and cancer research. - NYT

Wed, May 28, 2025:

• DeLauro, Murray Call Out Trump Admin’s Lack of Transparency on Spending, Demand Detailed Agency Spend Plans Be Submitted as Required By Law - Appropriations Committee Dems

Tues, May 6, 2025:

• GOP divided over Trump budget’s treatment of Pentagon - The Hill

Sat, May 3, 2025:

• Trump’s federal government cuts are just getting started - NYMag

Fri, May 2, 2025:

• Trump budget plan draws pushback on defense funding from key Senate Republicans--Wicker, Collins, and McConnell - WP

• DHS budget seeks significant boost for immigration; DHS would see 65% funding boost under budget request - Roll Call
  “The “skinny” version of the White House’s budget blueprint released Friday would provide $107.4 billion for DHS in the fiscal year starting Oct. 1, an increase of $42.3 billion, or 64.9 percent, above the $65.1 billion fiscal 2025 enacted level....Non-disaster grant programs for the Federal Emergency Management Agency would see a decrease of $646 million, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency would see a decrease of $491 million, and the Transportation Security Administration screening funding would see a decrease amounting to $247 million, the document states.”

• Trump’s Budget Flops With Some Powerful Republican Lawmakers - NYT

• Trump proposes $163 billion cut to US budget that slashes domestic spending - Reuters

• Trump sends a scorched-earth budget plan. GOP lawmakers hate it already. The request for obliterating many domestic programs sets up clash with Congress ahead of Sept. 30 shutdown deadline. - Politico

• Trump Proposes Slashing $163 Billion in Government Programs, While Boosting Military Spending; President’s wish list seeks to cut health research, climate and education programs - WSJ

• White House unveils reconciliation-augmented fiscal 2026 budget; Most nondefense agencies facing large cuts as defense, border spending surge - Roll Call

• White House unveils budget request with deep cuts: 5 things to know - The Hill

• Senate Republican Approps Chair has “serious objection” to parts of Trump budget - WCBD News
  “I have serious objections to the proposed freeze in our defense funding given the security challenges we face and to the proposed funding cuts to – and in some cases elimination of – programs like LIHEAP, TRIO, and those that support biomedical research,” Collins said, referring to the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program and Department of Education student outreach programs. She added, “ultimately, it is Congress that holds the power of the purse.”

Fri, April 25, 2025:

• Trump Budget to Take Ax to ‘Radical’ Safety Net Programs; A draft document outlines steep cuts or the elimination of funding for programs that provide child care, housing assistance, foreign aid and health research. - NYT

Thurs, April 17, 2025:

• White House budget plan would reportedly scrap all funding for Head Start. - TIME

Wed, April 16, 2025:

• Trump Draft Budget Decimates Health Services, Surrenders Americans to Preventable Disease and Premature Death - AppropsDems

• The Trump administration is considering a more than 30 percent cut to the budget for the Department of Health and Human Services, as part of a sweeping reorganization that would eliminate dozens of programs and consolidate key health agencies. - Politico

• HHS would be asked to absorb a $40 billion cut, about one-third of its discretionary budget. - WP

Tues, April 15, 2025:

• OMB preliminary FY 2026 Budget document (”Passback”) showing cuts to HHS

Mon, April 14, 2025

• Trump plan would slash State Dept. funding by nearly half, memo says; An internal document targets spending on humanitarian assistance, global health, and international organizations such as the United Nations and NATO. - WP

Fri, April 11, 2025:

• Trump budget proposal would fully eliminate Head Start; More than 1 million parents wouldn’t be able to go to work under the proposal, the National Head Start Association warned late Friday. - USA

• Massive cuts to NASA science proposed in early White House budget plan; The preliminary version of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal to Congress, known as a “passback,” would cut the agency’s science budget funding nearly in half. - WP

Tues, March 4, 2025:

• House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole told reporters he doesn’t expect to receive the Trump Administration’s FY 2026 Budget “before later April to early May.” - Bloomberg