President Biden
Joe Biden, Anne Frank’s half-sister: Trump “obviously admired Hitler,” the Biden-GOP infrastructure talks about starting a rupture. We must stop slowing down China’s climate MORE on Friday it proposed an annual budget of $ 1.5 trillion for fiscal year 2022, $ 118 billion more than the usual 2020 appropriations, with a significant 16% increase in non-defense spending.
The $ 769 billion non-defensive budget, which covers government departments such as Transportation, Health and Human Services, Justice and Education, is an increase of $ 105.7 billion from the current level.
Government officials, who say the government has invested little in domestic spending for years, noted it would be roughly in line with the 30-year non-defensive average of 3.3 percent of GDP.
Defense spending, which some budget observers expected to stay flat on the proposal, would rise by $ 12.3 billion, or 1.7 percent, to $ 753 billion, though none of the spending will occur through of a “emergency” deposit of decades that many ridiculed as a false and budgetary fund.
In a clear investment of four years of budget requests for President Trump
Donald Trump: The first Republican lawmaker asks Gaetz to resign Katie Hill for Matt Gaetz: “I feel betrayed” Anne Frank’s half-sister: Trump “obviously admired Hitler” MORE, which tried to reduce funding for major agencies but was routinely rejected by Congress, Biden’s proposal strengthens government agencies, including a 40.8% increase for Education, 27.7% for Commerce , 23.1% for Health and Human Services and a 16 percent increase for agriculture.
It would also boost agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency by 21.3% and the National Science Foundation by 19.8%.
It is likely that the level of defense, which rose sharply under Trump, will be pushed by the Democratic Party’s progressive wing, which has pushed for cuts in a defense budget that they say is inflated.
“This year’s appropriation process comes during one of the most difficult periods in the nation’s history,” Shalanda Young, the White House’s acting budget chief, wrote in a letter accompanying the budget request. to the main appropriators of Congress, pointing to the pandemic and its associated economic crises. .
“However, this time of crisis is also a time of possibility. Together, America has the opportunity not only to get things back on track before the COVID-19 pandemic and economic recession, but to start building a better, stronger, safer and more inclusive America. “
If enacted, the budget would be a change from historical trends, which would put more resources into non-defense programs than into defense.
The White House noted a significant increase in proposed spending on programs that it said will make the country healthier and more egalitarian, putting $ 8.7 billion in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and $ 10.7 billion in opioid addiction.
It would double Title I spending on high-poverty schools, increase the maximum level of Pell grants to $ 400, and invest in programs to reduce racial inequalities in housing, maternal health, and policing.
The application launches the annual appropriations process in Congress, which requires both houses to approve 12 spending bills to fund the government before the new fiscal year begins on October 1st. Without spending bills or an uninterrupted measure, the government closes.
Although the House Credit Committee has already announced hearings for next week to review budget requests, the road ahead is expected to be long and controversial.
Republicans, whose votes are needed to pass bills in the Senate, have already begun raising alarms about spending levels on big bills, such as the latest COVID-relief bill. 19 of $ 1.9 trillion and the bill proposed by Biden, of $ 2.3 trillion the annual expenditure proposed in Friday’s application.
While many budget observers supported the implementation of historic deficits in order to pay trillions of emergencies to the emergency COVID-19, they warn that deficits must be addressed in the long run.
The White House has not said whether it intends to pay the increases, which could add more than $ 1.3 trillion to the deficit over a decade.
Friday’s request did not reach the typical “thin” budgets often presented by administrations to start the credit process.
Instead of the typical ten-year window for spending, it only addressed the discretionary 2022 budget and did not include details on tax proposals or mandatory spending programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, which make up the bulk. of the government’s annual expenditure. Biden will include these details as part of a formal and complete budget request later in the spring.
Conservatives are likely to urinate on Biden’s proposal to not only cut funding to Trump’s border wall, but also recoup previously appropriated funds, as well as his focus on enforcing civil rights and police reform. Proposals on gun security and increases in Title X family planning are also likely to appeal to the right.
The decision to increase defense spending, which administration officials said would cover an increase in military pay, could also face reaction from progressives, who have argued that military spending is inflated and not it is subject to the same supervision as other government expenditures.
“It took about 20 years to do a partial audit at the Pentagon, and then they rejected it,” said Lindsay Koshgarian, program director for the Left National Priorities Project, which has advocated a 10 percent reduction in the defense spending.
“It’s not even about whether money does good things, but about how far the money goes and even the Pentagon doesn’t know it. You can imagine if this were the case with a social security networking program, the kind of flack you would get, ”he added.