Trump budget calls for more than $1T in defense spending, massive cuts to education
By Diana Glebova
President Trump unveiled his 2026 budget outline Friday, proposing cuts totaling $163 billion in education, foreign aid, energy and environmental protection — while boosting defense spending to over $1 trillion.
The $163 billion cut in non-defense discretionary spending is 22.6% below current levels, according to an outline of the budget released by the White House.
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Meanwhile, the president proposed a 13% increase for the Pentagon, bringing the total to $1.01 trillion. The administration is also calling for $175 billion “to, at long last, finally secure our border.”
Congress will still have to come up with its own budget plan, which could take months to hammer out.
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An FA-18 Hornet launches from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman.
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The White House is urgently pushing Congress to pass a spending plan — with chief of staff Susie Wiles telling The Post this week that securing Trump’s agenda with legislation is top of mind for the next six months.
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“We ought to have a budget by then which would contain virtually all of the president’s priorities,” Wiles said Tuesday, “which are the things that he campaigned on, and renewal of the Trump tax cuts.”
“And if, if that is all we do, which it won’t be. That is an enormous accomplishment, because it’s the framework for everything else we will work to do.”
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