https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-budget-proposes-10-cut-discretionary-spending-increased-defense-spending-2026-04-03/WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Friday requested a 10% cut in non-defense spending for the 2027 fiscal year and a massive $500 billion increase in the military budget, as the U.S. continues its war against Iran.The 2027 budget request comes as the president faces risky choices abroad, with the administration sending U.S. service members to the Middle East, and a weary public at home feeling the economic crunch of skyrocketing gas prices due to the conflict.The request ultimately requires approval by Congress, where disagreement over Trump's spending decisions recently led to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.The huge proposed surge in defense spending to $1.5 trillion, up from about $1 trillion in 2026, includes a 5% to 7% pay raise for military personnel at a time when thousands of servicemembers are actively deployed.The White House boasted that this defense funding approaches the “historic increases just prior to World War II.” The hefty ask contrasts with the more skeptical view Trump took toward military spending in his first term, when he even once called the level of funding “crazy.”Trump came into office vowing to cut federal spending and rein in the nation’s growing budget deficit, bringing in the world’s richest person, Elon Musk, to lead an effort that pushed about 300,000 people off the federal payroll.Despite that, the nation’s deficit, the gap between the amount of money the federal government takes in and how much it spends, has continued to widen, with the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office forecasting a $1.853 trillion shortfall in the fiscal year that ends on September 30, deeper than last year’s $1.775 trillion.
The nation’s $39.016 trillion debt has continued to grow under Republican and Democratic governments in part because most of the political battles around spending revolve around the amount Congress directly controls, the roughly one quarter of the budget known as “discretionary spending.”The 2027 budget request did not grapple with the most expensive part of mandatory federal spending - Social Security retirement and Medicare health spending for senior citizens - where suggesting cuts is considered politically perilous.If enacted, total federal spending would reach $2.2 trillion in 2027, compared with the roughly $1.8 trillion spent for the current fiscal year.DEFENSE COSTSThe military request will please defense hawks on Capitol Hill, but also highlights how Trump is trying to pay for doubling down on military pursuits, even after Republicans boosted defense spending last year in party-line legislation.The Pentagon already requested $200 billion in extra funding to pay for the Iran war, but the White House has not yet officially made that request to Congress, where it is also likely to face scrutiny from lawmakers in both parties.Other specific funding increases proposed by Trump include his controversial Golden Dome missile defense shield, money to build up critical mineral supplies for the defense industry and $65.8 billion to build 34 new combat and support ships.Funds for shipbuilding, a priority for Trump since his first term, include initial funding for the so-called Trump-class battleship as well as submarines.“Fiscal futility is ending,” White House budget director Russell Vought said in a letter to Congress, adding, “Our fiscal ship has turned to face in the right direction.”
MESSAGING IN A MIDTERM YEARThe president's budget also reflects the administration's political priorities ahead of the 2026 midterm elections in November, when Republicans hope to maintain their small majorities in both the Senate and House of Representatives.Lawmakers often treat White House budget requests as suggestive, as appropriators try to negotiate behind the scenes to maintain their own legislative priorities.Top congressional Democrats said Trump’s defense-heavy proposal was “dead on arrival.”“It’s just an out-of-touch plea for more money for guns and bombs, and less for the things people need, like housing, healthcare, education, roads, scientific research, and environmental protection,” Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley, the top Democrat on the budget committee, said in a statement.It was unclear how this new spending would affect the U.S. budget deficit because the projections were not included by the White House.The budget is "light on details and heavy on borrowing," Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said in a statement. "It relies on an entire decade of rosy economic assumptions for the vast majority of its improvements in the nation’s finances."Trump asserted that his administration’s pursuit against fraud could "balance our American Budget,” a claim met with skepticism from budget experts.However, the president and his team relish more funding fights with Democratic lawmakers, arguing in the documents that savings will be found "by reducing or eliminating woke, weaponized, and wasteful programs, and by returning state and local responsibilities to their respective governments."Some roposed cuts follow the administration's pursuit against "green energy" spending, as well as eliminating nearly 30 Justice Department programs they deem "weaponized" against the American people, along with other initiatives, like cutting the $315 million National Endowment for Democracy.
NASA CUTS AFTER ARTEMIS LAUNCHThere are also big cuts proposed to many major federal departments, including a 19% decrease for the U.S. agriculture department, a 12.5% cut for the U.S. health department and a 52% cut for the Environmental Protection Agency.Elsewhere, Trump's budget requests a 13% increase to "maximize" the Justice Department's "capacity to bring violent criminals to justice," as well as maintaining high spending for homeland security and immigration enforcement at $2.2 billion, which the administration said will pay for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, 41,500 detention beds, and 30,000 "family unit beds."Two days after NASA launched its most ambitious mission in decades, sending four astronauts on a mission around the moon under its Artemis program, the White House asked for a 23% decrease for that agency, including a $3.6 billion cut to the agency's science unit that would cancel roughly 40 programs.Trump's budget included $152 million for his idea to return the former Alcatraz prison island to active duty, and $481 million to increase hiring of air traffic controllers to bulk up staffing in airport towers across the country amid rising concerns about understaffing and air safety.Pet projects for Trump are also funded, like a $10 billion mandatory fund to establish the "Presidential Capital Stewardship Program" within the National Park Service "to coordinate, plan, and execute targeted, priority construction and beautification projects in and around Washington, D.C."
What the liberal media is refusing to report on is the immense amount of wealth projected to enter our economy very soon thanks to tariffs, DOGE spending cuts, Venezuelan oil, and all the oil we will sell to replace oil from the Strait. America is headed for an immense economic recovery, why won't the MSM tell the truth about that?
Not only did Star Wars predict the fascist take over of America.But they also predicted the budget of war mongering would inflict suffering on the American peoplehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghOzwa3Dh0w
>>1503250Why the absolute fuck would our military need EVEN MORE money? It’s already got more than the next what, 20 nations combined? If you can’t win with that then it’s a problem with competence, not funding. Like, I know it’s because they’re fucking fascists and corrupt as hell and don’t give a shit about the american people beyond ruling and exploiting us, but christ.
>>1503274If you didn't notice Iran chose to attack us and our military needs money to defend our lives, dumbass. Did you not see that there's a war going on right now?
>>1503276get a real job shill
>>1503276We could instantly get peace by handing over trump, that would save us 1.5 trillion.
>>1503299Over my dead body, traitorous scum.
>>1503276Did you even read the post you replied to, retard?
>>1503301>if you don't want americans to die in the name of zionism and grifting you're a traitorLOL
>>1503299Why? Will we be getting rid of ACA?
>>1503301You can join him in Iran.
>>1503250What you need to understand is if we don’t protect Israel we might as well nuke the world because a world without Israel is one Trump doesn’t want to live in
I thought it was the Department of War again.It's a War budget, not a defense budget. The only thing we are defending is Israel and keeping Trump out of prison.
>Draft dodger that promised no new wars is saying we need to cut public services at the behest of foreign interests Can’t make this shit up
>>1503409It’s still the DoD. Trump larping that it’s the Department of War because it sounds cooler doesn’t change reality.
>>1503414Look at this weirdo. He doesn't realize he's in a Gulf of the United States world acting like shit ain't real because "gRumpf!!". It's real.https://www.war.gov/
>>1503410I think you're misrepresenting the issue.I think it's there. Maybe you read something?
>>1503415No, whats weird is wasting a shit-ton of money for an arbitrary name change when you run on making the government more efficient.Supporting that is fucking stupid, there's literally no justification for doing that other than DON'T LOOK AT THE FUCKING FILES PLEASE! Like there are things he's done you can support from your distorted and stunted perception of reality, but you're full on cheering being shot in the foot here.
>>1503414And you do know the Department of War was the original name of the DoD, right?
>>1503421and you know trump was originally a nepobaby with a shitty reality tv show right
>>1503423Yes. He was always oddly famous for no reason. Everyone knew who he was and no one really knows why.
>>1503420You do know that your Dummycrap dickweeds have access to he unredacted files, right?So, if he's in there and they are with holding the information, the they aren't on your side.
>the they aren't on your sideESL shills aren't sending their best
>>1503421Yeah. We changed it.
>>1503415No, it’s not. There’s procedures for this and Trump didn’t follow them. The president can’t just say shit and have it be true, that’s not how it works.And no, I live in a Gulf of Mexico world. Same everyone else, including you. But you’re in denial about it, because you’re actually that fucking petty.
>>1503250What is the point of a government that stops spending money to help it’s people so it can instead spend more on killing the people of some other country?
>>1503435>I live in a Gulf of Mexico worldCringe resistance fagging.
>>1503438Yeah, only fags resist. Should be a real man and smile and nod at whatever Daddy Donny says instead.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/tehran-rejected-48-hour-ceasefire-proposal-us-iranian-media-citing-source-says-2026-04-03/Trumps losing the war. Incredible.
>>1503439>What are you resisting>What is Trump doing right now?I hate to use an overused term, but damn some of you really have T-D-S. Which is actually emerging and under study. Yes, your irrational, easy to predict and exploit lunacy is being studied as a 'folk mental illness'
>>1503442here's a penny faggot. you will never be a billionaire but you will swallow all their semen
>>1503442>What are you resistingFascism. >your irrational, easy to predict and exploit lunacyYou couldn’t project harder if you tried.
>>1503274This, the reason the war is going so shit isn't because the military is underfunded it's because the administration that started the war has no plan or strategy beyond kicking in the door and seeing what happens.The military is is, for the most part, doing its immaculately. But no amount of military dominance will help you, if you're clueless about what your wargoals even are not to mention how to achieve them.The only part that the military did fuck up is seemingly not wanting to learn any lessons from Russia's invasion of Ukraine in regards to drone defense, but I kind doubt that was due to a lack of funding.
I'll tell you right now, if it ever comes down to billionaires or commie fucks, Ima be broke-ass Uncle Tom snitching you out to Mr. Moneybags III's private army.>There's dat commie, massah!And I won't even feel bad about it. Cause with Mr. Moneybags III. I work 5x8 life destroying shits to pay bill calculated by AI to allow me just enough money to have a beer with my 15,000 calories a day.The reason: commies are ass, and I'll work 28 hours a day and starve.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_time
>>1503429Only half of the files have been released and the ones that have been released are rife with redactions of the PERPETRATORS names, not to mention the pages that were released and then later taken downBut you knew that already, mr shillbot
>>1503262It's honestly kind funny that it's borderline impossible to tell if you're joking or not.
>>1503451I'm pro-dRumpf and I'm not even sure either.Seems somewhat logical given we should essentially own Venezuela now, but...
>>1503274Late stage capitalism ruined all of our industries including defense. There’s fucking nobody out there that can keep up with munitions demand, it’s hilarious.
>>1503311We'd save several trillion by nationalizing healthcare and taking all the money stolen by insurance companies and consultants back.
>>1503476Nah. I think we'd save trillions by killing ACA and reigning in hospitals price gouging.
>>1503454Venezuelan oil is NOT Saudi oil, we've been over this before, there was a reason all the major oil companies didn't want their oil and it wasn't just because Maduro is a commie, it's because the oil to begin with isn't very valuable, it's dirty, sticky, heavy, requires extra processing, even Russia didn't want it. This whole thing is like trying to convince your neighbors that you still have food because there are still crumbs under the couch you haven't eaten.
>>1503533Didn’t China just send some super special refining thing to VZ?
>>1503262There’s no deal on Venezuelan oil
>>1503475On the munitions front, we over-expended a ton high-tech high-price equipment (sometimes using up to 10 times as many missiles as required to make sure something was dead), but the conventional Iranian military is pretty much kaput. On the other hand, this isn't the win that Trump is claiming that it is, as a lot of the tanks, artillery, planes, and other equipment we destroyed were never going to be that decisive, and we didn't make much of a dent in the stuff that is doing and will do the actual pain, the drones. Additionally, munitions reserves are strategic, and you must always consider the future wars you will have to deter/fight. For instance, depleting our arsenal in Iran would embolden China to flatten Taiwan which would set the global tech/semiconductor industry back ten years, or make moves against Japan.
>>1503536NTA but Venezuela was selling lots of oil to China, yeah.
