Trump’s New Budget Cuts More Health Care to Pay for More Wars
Donald Trump is set to release a budget plan calling for more than $1 trillion in defense spending in 2027, a sum that will be at least partially financed by cuts to programs that actually help Americans.
Trump would seek to increase defense spending to $1.5 trillion in 2027, up from nearly $1 trillion spent in 2026, Bloomberg reported Thursday. The demand for increased defense funding comes against the backdrop of Trump’s policies. increasingly unpopular the war in Iran and its price still rising, number of deaths unknownAnd wavering goals.
All of this comes at the cost of cutting federal programs – a tool Democrats could use to their advantage in the midterm elections. Trump’s drastic cuts to the federal workforce and reduced health care spending should work in favor of Democrats who hope to emphasize affordability.
Asset spoken frankly Wednesday was about prioritizing funding for a war over programs like universal child care, Medicaid and Medicare. So frankly, in fact, that the White House deleted a recording of his speech after publishing it.
Trump’s 2027 budget proposal is also expected to update 10-year deficit projections, which currently stand at around $16 trillion. During his first term, Trump promised to wipe out the country’s debt, but instead added $7.8 trillion to it. Given that the Supreme Court struck down his disastrous reciprocal tariff policy that he said would help balance the deficit, it’s unclear how he would keep that promise now.
The US government projects a deficit of $1.9 trillion for this exerciseas the total national debt now grows 39 trillion dollars.
