Ahead of Hearing, Ranking Member Merkley Releases Committee Fact Sheets on Trump’s Budget Request to Congress

Ahead of Hearing, Ranking Member Merkley Releases Committee Fact Sheets on Trump's Budget Request to Congress

Fact Sheets Detail How Trump is Out-of-Touch with the Needs of Working Americans; Begging Congress to Fund More War, Gut Programs for Families

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, released fact sheets on the President's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget request to Congress that detail how the request would gut domestic programs families rely on to fund more war in the Middle East. The Senate Budget Committee will hold a hearing on the President's Budget request this week.

"This budget request fails to meet the needs of working Americans, and these fact sheets detail how President Trump is more concerned with gutting programs families rely on and throwing more money at war than lowering gas or grocery prices," said Ranking Member Jeff Merkley. "Congress must ignore this out-of-touch plea for more money for guns and bombs and get to work crafting a bipartisan budget that meets the needs of working Americans."

If Congressional Republicans acquiesce to the President's demands, it will mean:

• Exploding the Department of Defense budget to a staggering $1.5 TRILLION.
• Entirely eliminating the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), which helps low-income households pay critical energy bills.
• Cutting the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by $5 billion- including by eliminating three institutes altogether - severely hampering research and development that lead to breakthroughs in cancer, Alzheimer's, HIV/AIDS, cardiovascular disease, and countless other conditions.
• Slashing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) budget by over $2.5 billion, while entirely eliminating critical programs supporting disease prevention.

Detailed fact sheets are below:

Health Care

Housing

Child Care, Education, and Energy Assistance Programs

Immigration

Defense

Social Security and Medicare

Energy

Climate

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