Biden budget seeks to flip script on Trump administration's spending priorities
President Biden’s first budget request to Congress includes $1.5 trillion in federal spending that turbocharges funding for education, health and environmental protections — flipping the script on the very programs the Trump administration long ridiculed and sought to slash.
The split is also laid bare in defense spending, which ramped up during the Trump years but would stay essentially flat under Biden’s pitch.
The White House proposal released Friday now goes to Congress, which ultimately holds the purse strings. Democrats hold narrow majorities in the House and Senate and will likely rely on Republicans to get the budget through, especially as Democrats vie for a massive jobs and infrastructure plan on top of Biden’s recent covid stimulus bill.
But no matter how Congress recalibrates the request, Biden’s initial swing stands in stark contrast to Trump’s spending goals. Trump’s budget proposals were often ignored by Congress, but they did serve as a marker of his priorities. He mostly sought to slash programs that he alleged were examples of bloated government waste. Biden’s budget frames the government in a much different light.
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