Senator Bill Cassidy, R-La., Joins “Mornings with Maria” to break the $ 136 billion in budget discounts from the Trump administration.
Friday, the administration of President Donald Trump is expected to publish his “lean” budgetary plan which describes high -level white house expenditure, which should reflect a more important demand for the defense budget.
High officials of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) said exclusively that Fox Business that the overall discretionary budget would be 1.7 dollars. The discretionary budget excludes spending on Medicare and Medicaid, as well as Social Security and interest on debt.
The defense budget should exceed the threshold of $ 1 billion overall for the first time, reaching 1.01 Billion of dollars. This includes $ 892.6 billion in discretionary expenses, which will be supplemented by $ 119.3 billion in compulsory spending within an additional period of $ 150 billion to be adopted in a next reconciliation bill.
High officials said that this is where the Trump administration can be creative to apply the budget by the congress. Republican majorities have historically been obliged to offer an individual increase in non -defensive expenses to obtain an increase in defense expenses.
However, by retaining discretionary defense expenses at 892.6 billion dollars, the same level as the 2025 exercise, the budget which would be presented to the Democrats would essentially reflect an unchanged discretionary budget with a decrease in the lowest discretionary budget of approximately $ 557 billion – a decrease of 22.6%.
Friday, the administration of President Donald Trump publishes his “meager” budgetary plan. (Images Kevin Dietsch / Getty / Getty Images)
Republicans of the White House and Congress then plan to continue $ 150 billion in compulsory defense expenditure thanks to the budget reconciliation process linked to tax packaging.
Overall, changes of $ 150 billion in the lean budget would increase the total increase in defense expenses to around 13.4%.
All the departments were invited to provide budget cuts, with the exception of veterans and transport services, which were excluded to protect the services of veterans as well as the exploration programs of NASA and space.
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