Trump’s first budget proposes huge cut in foreign aid, may affect Pakistan

“Increasing the defense budget at the expense of non-defense spending is unacceptable”, he said.

The 29 percent cut to the State Department focuses on eliminating climate change programs and reducing funding for peacekeeping missions.

The budget would slash funding for Health and Human Services by 18% to $69 billion. No specifics are provided. “While we support more funding for our military and defense, we must maintain support for our farmers and ranchers”. President Trump’s drastic cuts to the State Department and vital diplomacy and humanitarian efforts like the McGovern-Dole worldwide school feeding program is a risky step backward that weakens our role as a global leader.

The Associated Press detailed how rural airports such as one in northern MI, where Trump got 58 percent of the vote, would have to close due to a cut in federal funding.

The release of the White House budget proposal is an early step in what is expected to be a prolonged fight over government spending. Where we spend our own money speaks to priorities in our households or businesses. Economist Bruce Weinberg and colleagues at Ohio State University looked at what happened to federal research dollars that flowed to nine major Midwestern universities.

“That’s a message that our adversaries and our allies alike should take”, the top White House official said as the Democratic lawmakers and foreign policy experts slammed the Trump administration for a drastic 28 per cent reduction in the foreign aid budget, which mostly is routed through the State Department.

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A forward-thinking tech company might devote a huge part of its budget to research and development.

“We were surprised by how many were small, niche high-technology companies”, Weinberg and his colleagues wrote. In addition, the administration wants to eliminate GEAR-UP and reduce funding for TRIO programs, which prepare disadvantaged students for college and help them succeed once enrolled. Also includes $221 million investments to stimulate local economic growth. Barack Obama sent a preliminary budget for fiscal 2010 to Congress in late February 2009 and followed up with a complete budget in May.

The administration says the budget “seeks to reduce or end direct funding for global organizations whose missions do not substantially advance USA foreign policy interests, are duplicative or are not well-managed”.

The letter’s signatories also include National Association of Evangelicals President Leith Anderson, Christian singers Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith and leaders of denominations, seminaries and relief organizations.

Mulvaney said Trump’s proposed budget increases spending on his priorities without adding to the deficit.

These are the things we see as important – they reflect who we are.

Washington simply isn’t used to administrations proposing huge cuts that seem likely to end in what one journalist described as the largest proposed reduction in the federal workforce since World War II.

The Trump budget proposal also calls for the elimination of $667 million of federal grants to cities and states for homeland security, including $190 million to New York City alone. Neither funding nor how it would accomplish these goals were not specified.