President Trump's FY2026 Budget Proposal Released, and It Does Something We Haven't Seen in Decades

Red State ^ | 05/02/2025 | Ward Clark

[SeekAndFind]

The Trump administration has released its FY2026 budget proposal, and it contains some interesting tidbits. Let's look at some highlights.

The recommended funding levels result from a rigorous, line-by-line review of FY 2025 spending, which was found to be laden with spending contrary to the needs of ordinary working Americans and tilted toward funding niche non-governmental organizations and institutions of higher education committed to radical gender and climate ideologies antithetical to the American way of life.

We also considered, for each program, whether the governmental service provided could be provided better by State or local governments (if provided at all). Just as the Federal Government has intruded on matters best left to American families, it has intruded on matters best left to the levels of government closest to the people, who understand and respect the needs and desires of their communities far better than the Federal Government ever could.

Cutting such spending from the discretionary budget leads to significant savings: the President is proposing base non-defense discretionary budget authority $163 billion-22.6 percent-below current-year spending, while still protecting funding for homeland security, veterans, seniors, law enforcement, and infrastructure. Over 10 years, this restraint would generate trillions in savings, necessary for balancing the budget.

There are some interesting cuts, and some interesting increases. Base discretionary spending has a 22.6 percent decrease, while defense spending gets a 13.4 percent increase. Non-base spending has a total reduction of 64 percent.

You can also see some highlights on this X thread.

Today, we released President Trump's FY26 Discretionary Budget Request.

READ: ⬇️

pic.twitter.com/SdOJCAAsb6— Office of Management and Budget (@WHOMB) May 2, 2025

Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio chimed in with words of support:

For far too long, Americans have had little to no return on their investment. Their tax dollars have been sent to unaccountable NGO's overseas to fund programs that do not serve our nation's interests.

That's over.

Thanks to @POTUS, common sense leadership has been restored.… https://t.co/fa4fU7HZxe— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) May 2, 2025

As of this writing, the administration seems to be in line behind the president. What remains to be seen is whether Congress will see things the way the administration does. Some of us are old enough to remember the Reagan years and remember all too well how the Democratic Congress would, on receipt of the president's budget proposals, gleefully pronounce them "dead on arrival" and draft entirely new spending priorities. Now, at least until January of 2027, we have a Republican Congress, but that margin is narrow.

It's anybody's guess as to what will come out of the House of Representatives, from whence all federal spending flows. As for the spending levels, it's good to see some spending reductions, but to fix our national fiscal problems, those cuts will have to be magnified tenfold or more.

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But wait! There's more!

The budget, of course, is only one side of the fiscal story. While spending cuts are great, it's unclear at this juncture where we will land on the budget deficit. And, there is that one thing hanging over our nation like a vast, black, brooding predatory bird: $37 trillion in national debt. That's an existential crisis, and one that sooner or later, will have to be addressed - or it will handle us.

[metmom]

It's anybody's guess as to what will come out of the House of Representatives, from whence all federal spending flows. As for the spending levels, it's good to see some spending reductions, but to fix our national fiscal problems, those cuts will have to be magnified tenfold or more.

Actually, to fix our national fiscal problems, we need to have a whole new crop of politicians and judges who do not hate America and whose goal is not to destroy it.

[AZJeep]

Looks good.
Unfortunately, to balance the budget, we need to cut like 10x more!

[11th_VA]

It looks like we’re headed in the right direction - just wish we could get back to a 2019 baseline

[ByteMercenary]

I’m thinking that PDJT is asking for a 26% cut but will be happy with 12-15%. Doing this for three years straight will be awesome.

Lots of NGOs and their congressional support systems should be terminated. I wouldn’t mind if a few of the actual people involved were also.

[odawg]

It appears that the money will be spent legitimately and inside the United States and not parceled out according to leftist ideology and to leftist entities.

[odawg]

It looks like NGOs are one of the biggest financial scandals and money laundering scams of our time.

[cgbg]

My favorite part of the budget is the money going to the United Nations.

Zero dollars.

That is the only correct answer!

[Drago]

A proposed budget step in the right direction! (-$139.9 Billion)...but $1.66 Trillion short of balanced. Unfortunately it is most likely “a bridge too far” to fix at this stage...the $139.9 billion represents the lowest hanging fruit of possible cuts...the next $1.6 Trillion will be much harder with limited time (1-3 years). PDJT/DOGE is giving it an unprecedented attempt never before seen in the modern age but I fear that we are past the point of no return...the money printer goes “burrrrrrr”.

WH proposed budget details:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Fiscal-Year-2026-Discretionary-Budget-Request.pdf

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61181

Rock out!! https://youtu.be/O1hCLBTD5RM?si=SczL0t4Nsx1ztDWd

[SMARTY]

“Lots of NGOs and their congressional support systems should be terminated. I wouldn’t mind if a few of the actual people involved were also.”

I agree... and at least we ought to see many of them prosecuted. I always think of the of legal repurcussions some ordinary guy would face, if he got caught doing this stuff in the business sector

[maddog55]

We all know that no president gets what he ask for in their proposed budget.

Be interesting what the budget that passes looks like.

[central_va]

Or increase revenues.

[trebb]

Can’t afford to fix the budget in a couple years - gonna take a decade if fiscal responsibility to come close - but demanding the Congress submit a reasonable budget instead of using the ultra-wasteful (by design) continuing resolutions will be a start - else, go after the Congress for not following their own laws....prosecute to show them that “nobody is above the law”.....

[Vaduz]

Thanks to @POTUS, common sense leadership has been restored.

Something We Haven’t Seen in Decades.

Worth repeating and often.

A lesson worth learning for anyone going into politics or business.