Trump’s FY 2027 Budget: War and the Wealthy First, Working Families Last Arrow

Donald Trump submitted his annual budget proposal to Congress today, in which he requested $1.5 trillion in military spending while slashing critical programs that help everyday Americans, small businesses, and farmers. Trump's proposed $445 billion increase in military spending could instead pay for a year of health care for nearly 56 million Americans, a year of child care for 32 million children, or school lunch for 30 million children throughout their entire K-12 education.

Trump wants Americans to pay for his deadly and costly war of choice in Iran - which has already claimed the lives of 13 U.S. servicemembers and injured over 350. Trump's war is driving up prices - yet just this week Trump admitted, "We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We have fifty states, we have all these other people, we're fighting wars. We can't take care of day care."

In response, DNC Chair Ken Martin released the following statement:

"Donald Trump and JD Vance campaigned as an 'America First' ticket, but their budget shows where their priorities really are: billionaires first, working families last. Americans are already struggling to make ends meet in Trump's economy, and rather than make it easier to put food on the table, pay rent, or afford doctor's visits, Trump wants to make taxpayers pay for his war with Iran. Americans want housing, health care, and affordable energy bills, not more bombs. Families are sick of seeing their needs on the backburner while Trump caters to his own interests and secures massive tax handouts for his rich friends."

Here are some of the most harmful elements of Trump's budget:

Economy:

• Trump's budget calls for eliminating programs that help everyday Americans with high costs, including the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which provides assistance for energy costs to low-income households.
• Trump's budget calls for eliminating housing affordability programs, including those in the bipartisan Senate housing bill that Trump initially said he would sign into law.
• Trump's budget seeks to eliminate programs that support small businesses, including cutting the Commerce Department agency that promotes minority-owned businesses, as well as the Rural Business Service by $82 million.

Education:

• Trump is continuing his efforts to shut down the Department of Education by cutting billions from K-12 programs and millions from minority-serving institutions.

Farmers:

• Trump's budget calls for cutting hundreds of millions of dollars from programs that provide assistance to support school meals and child nutrition.

Environment:

• Trump's budget proposes a 52% cut to the EPA - the lowest level since the 1980s - including cutting funding to reduce pollution, which causes asthma and other harmful diseases.

Homeland Security:

• Amid the ongoing DHS shutdown, in which Trump and Republicans refuse to fund key agencies like TSA and FEMA, Trump is calling for a $52 million cut to TSA and for privatizing the agency.
• Trump is similarly calling for $1.3 billion in cuts to FEMA grants.
• Meanwhile, Trump is calling for $10 billion in additional funding for ICE with no reforms and no strings attached.
• Trump's budget seeks to cut grant funding for the Office on Violence Against Women, which his administration called "duplicative and unnecessary."