The Trump budget
Here's what President Donald Trump's budget proposal would provide to various government departments, and how the suggestion compares with 2017 enacted levels:
$19 billion, a 16 percent cut $9.8 billion, a 6 percent increase $686 billion, a 13 percent increase $59.9 billion, a 10.5 percent cut $29 billion, a 3 percent cut $68.4 billion, a 21 percent cut $46 billion, an 8 percent increase $39.2 billion, an 18.3 percent cut $37.8 billion, a a successful public-private partnership that helps protect both our environment and our economy."
The budget also would nearly eliminate the Federal Work Study program, cutting $790 million out of the $990 million program. The program aims to help needy graduate and undergraduate students pay for college through parttime employment.
Trump’s budget says the program is “inefficient at allocating funds to the neediest students” and “is also not well-designed to use the employment as an opportunity to advance students’ career and training opportunities.”
The budget also would eliminate the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. In budget documents, the Trump officials said it “has been known to have sizeable fraud and abuse.”
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, slammed Trump's spending plan as fiscally irresponsible.
"Rather than wishing away our fiscal problems, we need a budget that takes seriously the deep hole policymakers have dug us into. Between last week's budget deal and December's tax bill, the country is on a borrowing spree that will lead to the return of trillion-dollar deficits by next year and $2 trillion deficits within a decade or so," MacGuineas said. "We've taken fiscal recklessness to a new level."
Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Niles, was even more blunt: “The only function the president’s budget proposal serves is to remind us how completely out of whack his priorities are for the American people.”