Although I know this will never get passed even close to how it is, there are a LOT of great ideas in here that I support!! Some of you have grumbled at me because I don't support everything Trump does, but I am really, really liking this proposed budget. Although I think defense spending is one of the most important things the gov't should be spending tax dollars on, if it were not for the war, I would think this dollar amount is excessive. BUT we have been spending a lot in Iran, so in light of that, it my be justified. We will need to replace everything we used, and repair all that was damaged so the military will likely need it.

I am gonna highlight in green the proposals I agree with and highlight in red those I disagree with it. If it's not highlighted, I have no strong opinion either way. What say you all?? And remember..... keep it civil...... and economically focused as much as possible. If we can all be civil this post may last for a bit but if not it won't last long. And it took me a while to do all those colors so behave!!! LOL

Edit: Wanted to also point out that I absolutely think the entire budget is of course too much, but I have pretty much given up on either party ever being fiscally responsible.





WASHINGTON—President Trump on Friday released a budget proposal for the 2027 fiscal year, seeking $1.5 trillion in defense spending, by far the largest dollar amount in modern history.

The proposal for military spending included $1.1 trillion for the Defense Department for the next fiscal year, as well as another $350 billion for critical munitions, an effort to expand the defense industrial base and other matters. Trump promised a $1.5 trillion defense request in January, before the U.S. launched large-scale strikes on Iran.

The White House proposed a 10% reduction of nondefense spending to about $660 billion in the 2027 fiscal year, followed by additional cuts in subsequent years. The outlined reductions hit areas including education and would halve funding for the Environmental Protection Agency.

The document also ticked off “woke” programs it said it was targeting for reductions. The White House proposed slashing funding for programs it says promote “radical gender and racial ideologies,” including Education Department programs for minority-serving institutions.

The fiscal 2027 budget proposal shows Trump’s spending priorities amid a war in Iran and after a year of high-profile budget fights in Congress. A Republican-controlled Congress will need to determine which pieces will be passed into law before the fiscal year begins Oct. 1.

Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought will testify before the House Budget Committee on April 15.

The budget includes funding for some of the administration’s new initiatives, including $30 million to support the newly established National Fraud Division, led by Vice President JD Vance, and $10 billion in mandatory funding to establish a Presidential Capital Stewardship Program within the National Park Service for construction and beautification projects in the nation’s capital.

The Pentagon portion of the request includes funding to boost manufacturing of munitions, a priority of Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg. The Pentagon request calls for buying 34 ships, including funding for a new class of battleship named after Trump and new frigates, both announced last year. In all, the administration wants $65.8 billion for shipbuilding. The defense request also includes money to build the Golden Dome missile shield championed by Trump.

The budget proposal would bolster military pay depending on servicemembers’ ranking.

The Justice Department would see a 13% funding increase that would allow the federal government to strengthen immigration enforcement and hire more than 300 Drug Enforcement Administration agents, according to the proposal. The proposal earmarks about $150 million to rebuild Alcatraz “as a state-of-the-art secure prison facility.” The storied prison is now a top tourist attraction in San Francisco.

For the Department of Homeland Security, the administration is requesting to maintain funding levels for the two immigration enforcement agencies, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, while cutting funding from other parts of the department.

Trump proposed cutting funding to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, for example, which the administration wants to downsize in favor of forcing states and local governments to address their own disasters. The administration would cut $707 million from DHS’s cybersecurity agency and end its election security work.

And the budget proposes steps to begin re-privatizing the Transportation Security Administration by forcing small airports to hire private security contractors. The administration prefers this approach because private security couldn’t be defunded during a federal government shutdown, as happened twice this year. The TSA was first formed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to standardize security measures, when hijackers passed through security carrying sharp blades.

Trump’s budget proposes $111.1 billion in funding for the Department of Health and Human Services, a reduction of $15.8 billion or 12.5% from the 2026 enacted level. The cuts include a $5 billion reduction at the National Institutes of Health and the elimination of NIH divisions that focus on racial health disparities and transgender health research. The budget also proposes $19 million toward expanding nutritional services as part of the administration’s Make America Healthy Again agenda and $55 million for new food safety initiatives at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The budget forecasts a huge increase in federal revenue from tariffs, which already more than doubled in 2025 after a series of new tariffs that Trump issued in the first year of his second term.

In 2026, the budget estimates the U.S. will take in over $406 billion in tariff revenue, more than double the $194 billion that the government received from tariffs in 2025. The budget forecasts that annual tariff revenue will reach $500 billion by 2029.

Those estimates are significantly higher than independent forecasts of how much money Trump’s tariffs are set to generate in the coming years. The Yale Budget Lab estimates that, in 2026, Trump’s current tariffs would bring in just over $171 billion—less than half of the Trump administration’s estimate.

In 2029, Yale estimates tariff revenue would be $193 billion under current policies, a far cry from the half-trillion that Trump’s team expects. That could point to optimistic forecasting from the administration, or indicate that the president anticipates raising tariffs even higher in the years to come.

White House spokesman Kush Desai said the group underestimates the economic benefits of tariffs and overestimates their inflationary effects.

The administration is requesting a 23% decrease in funding for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, days after the agency launched astronauts on a historic flight. The White House characterized the shift as focusing spending on landing astronauts on the moon. Some cuts would come from eliminating school science and technology programs. “NASA will inspire the next generation of explorers through exciting, ambitious space missions, not through subsidizing woke STEM programming,” the proposal read.

Reactions to the budget broke along party lines.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), the former Senate leader who now chairs the appropriations subcommittee that funds the military, said that Congress is waiting for more details on the fiscal year 2027 budget, as well as a supplemental spending request from the Trump administration to pay for its military campaign against Iran. The Trump administration is seeking an additional $200 billion to cover operations related to the war, The Wall Street Journal previously reported.

Sen. Patty Murray (D., Wash.) said military funding comes at the expense of medical research. “Our national defense budget should not be dictated by a president who is sending servicemembers into harm’s way in reckless foreign wars,” she said

iI thought the tarriffs had been shut down. he better get what he wants at this time because after the mid terms not going to happen.

After I read all of this will there be a test?

Don't worry, it'll just be multiple choice.... no essays.

Crazy, bet you nor I will be saving any money as a result. Does anyone think consumer prices will ever decrease? Not sure our federal government will ever truly decrease in size or scope either. What true motivation does any politician have to shrink the machine? None, I suspect.

Can I use Crayons instead of #2 pencils? I am not allowed to have anything sharp.

…. Just skimmed through that novel lol

…. Obviously I agree with cuts to the woke and dei nonsense

… and the military spending will be approved as a certain country in the Middle East wouldn’t have it any other way

…. I support the anti immigration stuff but have my doubts it’ll be used for mass deportation as that’s been given up on

TLDR.

With the history that Trump has with congress I doubt you will see much of anything he wishes put into action, most of it
will be dropped or changed so much that it won't even be familiar to his ideas

This is of course if he is still even in office after the war gets finalized !