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riversedge

(80,872 posts)
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 02:51 PM Friday

;( Trump is seeking to pay for his new $1.5 trillion military budget by cutting the following:

I do not know how accurate this is but I do know that Trump wants billions and billions MORE for the Military!!



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Trump is seeking to pay for his new $1.5 trillion military budget by cutting the following:

$510 million - Grants for farmers and agricultural research
$82 million - Loans for rural small businesses (Fully eliminated)
$61 million - Support for farmers and food markets (Fully eliminated)
$240 million - School meals and food education for children abroad (Fully eliminated)
$659 million - Community building grants
$47 million - Support for minority-owned businesses (Fully eliminated)
$449 million - Economic development grants for communities
$1.6 billion - Weather forecasting, fisheries, and coastal protection (NOAA)
$993 million - Scientific research and technology standards
$150 million - Support for American exports and trade
$2.2 billion - Broadband and internet access programs
$8.5 billion - Funding for public schools
$1.5 billion - Vocational training and adult education (Fully eliminated)
$2.7 billion - College access and higher education support
$15.2 billion - Roads, bridges, and infrastructure projects
$1.1 billion - Home energy efficiency and clean energy programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.1 billion - Scientific research funding
$386 million - Environmental cleanup programs
$150 million - Cutting-edge clean energy research
$4 billion - Help paying home heating and cooling bills for low-income families (Fully eliminated)
$768 million - Refugee resettlement assistance
$819 million - Care and shelter for migrant children
$775 million - Local anti-poverty programs (Fully eliminated)
$5 billion - Public health programs, mental health services, and disease prevention
$5 billion - Medical research (NIH)
$129 million - Healthcare quality and safety research
$356 million - Emergency preparedness and disaster response
$1.3 billion - FEMA community disaster preparedness grants
$707 million - Cybersecurity protection for critical infrastructure
$52 million - Airport and transportation security
$40 million - Protection against chemical and biological weapons threats
$53 million - Funding for homeland security operations
$3.3 billion - Community development block grants for local neighborhoods (Fully eliminated)
$1.3 billion - Affordable housing construction grants (Fully eliminated)
$393 million - Programs to reduce homelessness
$529 million - Housing assistance for people living with HIV/AIDS (Fully eliminated)
$489 million - Housing and services for Native American communities
$50 million - Grants to help communities build more housing (Fully eliminated)
$60 million - Enforcement of fair housing and anti-discrimination laws
$58 million - Homebuyer and renter counseling services (Fully eliminated)
$45 million - Renewable energy development programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.7 billion - Grants for local law enforcement and public safety
$20 million - Civil rights mediation and legal access programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.6 billion - Job training for at-risk youth (Fully eliminated)
$395 million - Jobs program for low-income seniors (Fully eliminated)
$234 million - Worker safety and labor protection programs
$101 million - Enforcement of equal pay and workplace anti-discrimination laws
$46 million - Programs to combat child labor and forced labor abroad
$2 billion - International humanitarian aid
$1.2 billion - Food aid for hungry families abroad (Fully eliminated)
$4.3 billion - Global health and disease prevention programs
$2.7 billion - Funding for the United Nations and international partnerships
$642 million - International economic and treasury programs
$315 million - Democracy and anti-corruption programs abroad
$486 million - Grants for public transit projects
$4.2 billion - Electric vehicle charging infrastructure
$372 million - Airline service for rural and small communities
$145 million - Grants for sustainable and equitable infrastructure
$204 million - Loans and investment for underserved communities
$1.4 billion - IRS taxpayer services and enforcement
$100 million - Air pollution monitoring and reduction programs (Fully eliminated)
$1 billion - EPA grants to states for environmental protection
$2.5 billion - Clean drinking water and wastewater infrastructure funds
$90 million - Grants to reduce diesel pollution (Fully eliminated)
$3.4 billion - NASA space and earth science research
$297 million - NASA technology innovation programs
$1.1 billion - International Space Station operations
$143 million - STEM education programs
$309 million - Small business development and entrepreneurship programs
$170 million - Small Business Administration operations
$158 million - Loans for small businesses


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;( Trump is seeking to pay for his new $1.5 trillion military budget by cutting the following: (Original Post) riversedge Friday OP
Eff this know nothing a**hole... wcmagumba Friday #1
Is this Traildogbob Friday #2
Orange $$$$$$$atan's "America First" LIES were really "MIC First" Justice matters. Friday #3
So Mike Johnson and the Republican Congress: "thank you sir. May I have another" Walleye Friday #4
Goodbye, social safety net. Hello, more military-industrial spending his family and friends will profit from. highplainsdem Friday #5
The next Democratic president meeds to decapitate the defense budget biocube Friday #6
Right? ABC123Easy Friday #29
Congress never authorized this war Qutzupalotl Friday #7
This should correct the America Second population in a big way. ananda Friday #8
This would cripple his economy. Johonny Friday #9
His economy. Ah, but Republicans have perfected Bettie Friday #14
It's . Not . His . $$ dweller Friday #10
People should continue to think that the GOP and TSF have plans to avoid free and fair elections. nt wiggs Friday #11
He admitted as much on camera Eddie Haskell 60 Friday #12
Questions Republicans should be forced to answer: newdeal2 Friday #13
I feel safer already superpatriotman Friday #15
And this is EXACTLY why Dems need to counter propose FHRRK1 Friday #16
Hear!! Hear!! littlemissmartypants Friday #24
It'll never happen BeneteauBum Friday #17
This is a long standing GOP wish list. xuplate Friday #18
I saw our LIHEAP was denied today mvd Friday #19
The war not just a war of choice, it is a scam delisen Friday #20
Trillions for offence and not a cent Retrograde Friday #21
He's trying to show he's a dick by cutting everything that doesn't benefit him or his billionaire donors. ChicagoTeamster Friday #22
VOTE! Joinfortmill Friday #23
Sounds to me like he plans to make War on the World. BurnDoubt Friday #25
So, everything but his golf trips and his stupid ballroom. C_U_L8R Friday #26
Can someone provide links? highplainsdem? Anyone? littlemissmartypants Friday #27
That won't cover the first year interest on the increase in military spending. IbogaProject Friday #28
Looks like he plans to just keep going and conquer the world. colorado_ufo Friday #30

Justice matters.

(9,806 posts)
3. Orange $$$$$$$atan's "America First" LIES were really "MIC First"
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 02:58 PM
Friday

And corrupted "return" on the taxpayers credit card.



When criminal malfeasance gets obscenely rewarded instead of being deterred by jail punishments as it should be.

Walleye

(44,898 posts)
4. So Mike Johnson and the Republican Congress: "thank you sir. May I have another"
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 03:00 PM
Friday

You would think they’d be a little bit scared of having to campaign on this if the election weren’t completely stolen like it is. Armed militia at the polling places, I’m sure that’s against the law in Delaware

highplainsdem

(62,254 posts)
5. Goodbye, social safety net. Hello, more military-industrial spending his family and friends will profit from.
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 03:04 PM
Friday

And more "toy" soldiers the toddler-in-chief can play with.

biocube

(222 posts)
6. The next Democratic president meeds to decapitate the defense budget
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 03:22 PM
Friday

and stop worrying that people may not see you as "tuff on terra".

ABC123Easy

(291 posts)
29. Right?
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 05:42 PM
Friday

I keep hearing about this "Terra" person and how horrific and bad she is. Must be an evil beeyatch.

Qutzupalotl

(15,827 posts)
7. Congress never authorized this war
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 03:34 PM
Friday

so the Trump Crime Family and Gold Painted Shoe Company can damn well pay for it.

ananda

(35,192 posts)
8. This should correct the America Second population in a big way.
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 03:35 PM
Friday

I'm thinking we'll lose vulnerable people in the millions.

Bettie

(19,714 posts)
14. His economy. Ah, but Republicans have perfected
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 04:10 PM
Friday

the "Art" of making everything someone else's fault. Right now, they prattle on about it being Biden's economy, unless things are going well, in which case it is his, all his "100% his brilliance". (Typing that last bit almost made me throw up)

If a Democrat is elected president after that orange piece of excrement, it's all the new president's fault, from election day forward, all that other guy's fault!

If a Republican is elected, it's still Joe Biden's fault.

And the media will relentlessly parrot whatever they are told to say until the majority believes it.

Especially now that the media is mostly owned by billionaires.

ETA: But, YES, this is going to fuck over all of us who aren't billionaires. Every last one of us and the millionaires are going to figure out fast that they are not rich enough to matter either.

wiggs

(8,817 posts)
11. People should continue to think that the GOP and TSF have plans to avoid free and fair elections. nt
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 04:02 PM
Friday

newdeal2

(5,447 posts)
13. Questions Republicans should be forced to answer:
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 04:06 PM
Friday

1) What happened to the DOGE savings?
2) Where's the tariff money? Is it being returned?
3) Why can't Trump cancel his vanity projects - ballroom, Kennedy Center makeover, arch? That's private money he can redirect to the military.

FHRRK1

(31 posts)
16. And this is EXACTLY why Dems need to counter propose
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 04:16 PM
Friday

For Example
1. Free Education - PreK through College - Including meals
2. Govt Healthcare - Fully funded

the list needs to be HUGE.

Because my entire life I have seen Repukes make outlandish requests. These requests then become the baseline for negotiations, thus we get tax cuts for the rich and cuts to programs. We have to stop this NOW!

BeneteauBum

(525 posts)
17. It'll never happen
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 04:26 PM
Friday

The people are getting fed up with his BS……..and congress is aware of their precarious position.

Peace ☮️

mvd

(65,917 posts)
19. I saw our LIHEAP was denied today
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 04:49 PM
Friday

I wonder if it is because of the asshole’s cuts? Because mom and I should have qualified.

PECO stacked bills on after not sending them which led to trouble.

Some good news is we finally sold the house, so we’ll have some money for these bills in early May.

delisen

(7,377 posts)
20. The war not just a war of choice, it is a scam
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 04:50 PM
Friday

Dept of Defense could not account for billions missing before the Iran attack. Now there will be trillions missing if Trump and Hegseth are not removed.

I thought it was odd when Lindsay Graham said we are all going to get rich due to the war……..I guess “we” meant Trump and his small circle of friends.

Rank and file MAGAs will be left holding the bag of debt along with the rest of us

The way out of the mess: Get out of Iran, no increase in military budget.

ChicagoTeamster

(984 posts)
22. He's trying to show he's a dick by cutting everything that doesn't benefit him or his billionaire donors.
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 05:06 PM
Friday

He thinks stupid MAGAts will cheer this because he's owning the libs.

BurnDoubt

(1,749 posts)
25. Sounds to me like he plans to make War on the World.
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 05:15 PM
Friday

He and his Uglyarch buddies are going to impoverish the Country to go on a Hegemony Spree, hoping to own what will be left.
"Uglyarchy Uber Alles; Uber Alles In Der Welt !”
They think it’s doable… with Other Peoples' Money.
High On Their Own Supply?
Time For A Neck-tie Party.

littlemissmartypants

(33,778 posts)
27. Can someone provide links? highplainsdem? Anyone?
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 05:19 PM
Friday

That seems like a lot of potential grifting, to me.

IbogaProject

(5,925 posts)
28. That won't cover the first year interest on the increase in military spending.
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 05:24 PM
Friday

That isn't even much more than 20 billion dollars. he is looking to add 400 billion to Military budget. First year interest on that amount will be north of $20 billion.

colorado_ufo

(6,253 posts)
30. Looks like he plans to just keep going and conquer the world.
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 05:52 PM
Friday

Like Putin wants to.

Nothing for us - just slave labor.

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