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.

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— 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.

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