Trump’s Budget: Cruelty, Contempt, and Endless Debt

Trump proposes a huge increase in military spending despite widespread economic stresses

Trump and Republicans in Congress are – and have been – advancing a budget for the country that reduces assistance for ordinary citizens. This is glaringly obvious in Trump’s budget proposal for 2027, a budget that likely will be approved by Republicans in Congress. It is a budget that overwhelming favors military spending. It would not be so bad if citizens generally were in sound financial shape, but many are not. There has been an “affordabil…

Trump said he cares about working people — but his new budget says otherwise

President Donald Trump’s proposed budget is a “betrayal” against the low-income Americans who propelled him back to the White House in 2024, a prominent journalist warned on Sunday.“The message to everyday Americans is: beware,” wrote The Guardian's Eduardo Porter on Sunday. Earlier in the article Porter had pointed out that “to the average American, however, it must be hard to understand Trump’s budget proposal as anything but a betrayal. He wo…

Trump’s Budget: Cruelty, Contempt, and Endless Debt

The headline number from the Trump Administration’s fiscal 2027 budget, released last week, was the eye-watering $1.5 trillion demanded for the “Department of War.” But that’s not the only problem in this flaming dumpster of a document. If budgets are meant to be blueprints, what Trump is building is a mausoleum for America’s future. First, let’s be clear: Trump’s budget has no chance of passing Congress as is. In fact, Congress flatly rejected …