Trump administration unveils more detailed proposal for steep 2026 spending cuts
- The Trump administration released a detailed 2026 budget proposal on Friday outlining steep domestic spending cuts and defense increases.
- The proposal follows a trend of rising Pentagon budgets since Trump's first term and Biden's administration while targeting a 22% domestic spending cut.
- It requests maintaining $274.5 million for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program despite chronic shortages and rising antisemitism, amid calls for larger increases.
- The budget cuts funding for hate crimes programs and civil rights offices while proposing nearly halving State Department funds and reducing military aid to Jordan.
- The plan could reshape federal priorities by boosting defense but reducing domestic security and diplomacy, requiring bipartisan support to pass amid ongoing legislative efforts.
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Trump doesn’t request an increase in funding for nonprofit security grants
President Donald Trump’s full budget request to Congress on Friday recommended Congress hold the Nonprofit Security Grant Program at its current level of $274.5 million, in spite of chronic funding shortages and pressure from both lawmakers and the Jewish community for substantially increased funding at a time of rising antisemitism. In 2024, at that funding level, and with an additional $180 million available from the national security suppleme…
The U.S. government has given the color of the massive cuts it expects: $163 billion in the next federal budget. This is still only a draft, because Congress remains in control of the vote on the financial laws. But the 1,200-page document transmitted by the White House sets the tone: President Donald Trump wants to impose a historic cut in public spending in the United States.


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Trump sends detailed budget request cutting spending by $163 billion to Congress • Utah News Dispatch
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, U.S. President Donald Trump, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Education Secretary Linda McMahon attend an event for the Make America Healthy Again Commission report in the East Room of the White House on May 22, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — The Trump administration released significantly more detail about its budget request Friday…
Trump administration unveils more detailed proposal for steep 2026 spending cuts
The Trump administration on Friday unveiled more details of the president's vision for how to fund the government in fiscal year 2026, expanding on its request earlier this month for steep spending cuts. The lengthy budget appendix, which stretches to more than 1,200 pages, comes as Republicans in both chambers have pressed the administration for more information about the president’s proposed funding cuts. President Trump is calling for more th…
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