The agency notes that the “cut budget” is the first opportunity for the new president to determine its vision of the size and scale of the federal government. And although Congress rarely accepts the previous draft budget completely, it launches the process of annual budget allocations.
According to interlocutors, Trump's defense expenses for 2026 are financing the Golden Dome missile defense project, nuclear energy shipbuilding and modernization, borders. Also, the draft budget provides for an increase in the salary of the military by 3.8%.
The head of the White House plans to reduce the domestic political expenses that were in 2025 by a reduction in environmental protection programs, renewable energy, education, health, programs aimed at overcoming racial inequality, including standard reductions in the relevant departments. Trump will also ask legislators to abolish $ 15 billion provided for in renewable energy in the US-President Joe Bayden's infrastructure, the agency reports.
It is not yet clear how Trump’s budget is suitable for social security programs that make up most federal expenditures, notes Bloomberg, because he promised not to cancel the benefits, although he said that he would fight fraud and abuse in the system. It is also not yet known how the tariff revenues are used, which the White House plans to receive against the backdrop of duties and trade negotiations with foreign countries.
Context
On January 20, Trump signed a decree on the suspension of US external assistance programs for 90 days to check how much they meet its political goals, as a result of which the US Agency for International Development (USAID) stopped financing all programs and projects without exception.
On February 3, the American billionaire Ilon Musk, whom Trump instructed to conduct an audit of government spending of the United States, announced his intention to close USAID. On the same day, CNN wrote that the main office of the agency in Washington does not work, and employees warned that there was no need to come to work. On February 24, USAID informed that the Trump administration began mass reduction in the agency that will affect thousands of employees. On March 28, it became known that the US State Department officially informed the USAID dissolution.
USAID was not the only organization that fell under the reduction of DOGE. On March 14, The Telegraph wrote that the Department has stopped financing a group of researchers at Yale University, who found and returned home Ukrainian children deported to Russia-aggressor.
Earlier, in February, Trump said that he would try to reduce the Pentagon budget by billions of dollars as part of an effort of mask to reduce the expenses of government agencies of the United States. On March 29, the Pentagon press service reported that US Secretary of Defense Pit Hegset signed a memorandum to reduce the number of civilian regular positions in the defense department. Agency Bloomberg It was suggested that the abbreviations can affect about 75 thousand people. On this day, it became known that Doge fired almost all full -time employees of the American Institute of the World.
On April 14, the US Education Department said that the US Federal Government froze perennial grants and contracts for Harvard University. The decision was made after Harvard rejected the requirements of the White House, allegedly aimed at combating anti -Semitism in an educational institution.
