Washington – The White House is planning on Friday to present President Donald Trump’s Budget 2026, a radical framework that is expected to propose pronounced reductions, if not a wholesale sale, of several federal programs as part of the priorities of its administration.
Budgets do not become law, but touch For the next fiscal year debates. It is often considered a declaration of values, this first budget since Trump’s return to the White House entails the additional weight of defining the second -period activities of the Republican President, along with his party in Congress.
The White House Management and Budget Office, headed by Russell Vought, An architect Chief of Project 2025He confirmed the planned launch of Friday. It is expected to be the so -called “skinny” version of the numbers of the upper line, with more details to come.
“Details soon,” Vought said during a cabinet meeting this week at the White House.
The estimated nation Federal Budget of more than $ 7 billion It has been growing constantly, with annual deficits that quickly approach $ 2 billion and the annual interest in the debt of almost $ 1 billion. That is thanks mainly to the increase in Emergency Pandemia COVID-19, changes in the Tax Code and the Calada de Medicare, Medicaid and other programs, to a large extent to meet the health needs of the Nation as people age. The nation’s debt burden, in $ 36 billionIt is globula.
This year’s presidential budget application is expected to show deep reductions in spending, some reflect the cuts already carried out by Trump’s actions and The Advisor Elon Musk’s government efficiency departmentincluding the cutting of the government’s workforce. You could also point out possible new sources of income, possibly Trump Rate Program.
Democrats are prepared to criticize Trump’s budget As additional evidence that the Republican Administration intends to gut the government programs on Americans.
It occurs when Congress is already in the drafting work of the great invoice of Trump tax exemptions, expenses and Reinforced funds for the mass deportation effort of the administration – A package that, unlike the budget, would actually carry the force of the law.
President of the Mike Johnson houseWho spoke with Trump several times this week, is competing for the Chamber to be approved by the Chairman’s Chamber of the President’s Fallen and sent to the Senate.
“We had a very productive and encouraging meeting at the White House this morning, and the remaining pieces of ‘The only one, great beautiful bill!’ They are joining very well, “said Johnson, a republican of La-La., said in a statement after Thursday’s meeting with Trump and several presidents of the committee.
But there are deep differences between Republicans, who are trying to pass that great bill on the objections of the Democrats.
“We are waiting for some final calculations about some of the fiscal components, and we hope to complete that work at a very aggressive schedule,” said Johnson.
Meanwhile, the Cabinet officials are expected to begin to make Capitol Hill’s walk to testify about their various requests in the president’s budget.
It is the Congress, under its constitutional powers, which decides the expense plans, approves the bills authorizing federal programs and Finish them through the assignments process. Often, that system decomposes, which forces legislators to approve Stopgap spending invoices to keep the government financed and avoid federal closures.
Vought is also expected in Capitol Hill in the coming weeks, since the Trump administration presses its case to Congress to obtain funds.
Among the most skilled conservative budget hands in Washington, Vought has drawn a race towards this moment. It served during the first Trump administration in the same role and, for project 2025, wrote an extensive chapter on the reference of the federal government.
Vought has been preparing a package of $ 9 billion that would destroy the current 2025 funds for the United States Agency for International Development and the Corporation for Public Radiodice, which involves the public transmission service and national public radio. Trump signed an executive order on Thursday night that instructs the corporation for public transmission and federal agencies to Leave funds for PBS and NPR.
Vought has said that the package of the so -called budgetary termination would be the first of potentially more, since the Trump administration proves appetite in Congress so that legislators vote and vote to reverse money.
