President Biden
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The $ 769 billion non-defense 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.
Administration officials, who say the government has been underinvesting in domestic spending for years, noted that this would roughly match the thirty-year average non-defense of 3.3 percent of GDP.
Defense spending, which according to some budgets would remain the same in the proposal, by $ 12.3 billion, or 1.7 percent, would rise to $ 753 billion, although none of that spending would come from a decades-old “emergency” bucket expenses that are much mocked as a budget gimmick.
In a stark reversal of four years’ budget requests from President Trump
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It would also increase agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency by 21.3 percent and the National Science Foundation by 19.8 percent.
The level of defense, which has risen dramatically under Trump, is likely to push back from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, which has insisted on cutting a defense budget that they say has been inflated.
“This year’s appropriation process is taking place during one of the most difficult periods in the country’s history,” White House acting chief budget officer Shalanda Young wrote in a letter accompanying the budget request to leading congressmen , referring to the pandemic and the accompanying economic crises. .
“Yet this moment of crisis is also a moment of possibility. Together, America has a chance to not only go back to the way things were before the COVID-19 pandemic and economic downturn, but to a better, stronger, more secure, more inclusive America. ‘
If established, the budget would be a change in historical trends, which would place more resources in non-defense programs than defense.
The White House pointed to the significant proposed spending increases in programs that they believe would make the country healthier and more equal, with $ 8.7 billion in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and $ 10.7 billion in opioid addiction.
It would more than double the spending of Title I on schools with poverty, increase the maximum level of Pell grants to $ 400 and invest in programs to reduce racial inequalities in housing, maternal health and policing.
The request begins the annual appropriation process in Congress, which requires both chambers to pay twelve expenses to fund the government before the new fiscal year begins on October 1st. Without spending bills or a stopgap, the government is shut down.
Although the Home Credit Committee has already announced hearings for next week to review the budget requests, the road ahead is expected to be long and controversial.
Republicans, whose votes are needed to pass Senate appropriation bills, have already started sounding alarms about spending levels in big ticket items, such as the most recent $ 1.9 billion COVID-19 bill and Biden’s proposed $ 2 infrastructure bill , 3 billion, which is separate from the annual spending proposed in Friday’s request.
While many budget viewers have endorsed the historic deficits to pay for trillions in COVID-19 emergency relief, they warn that deficits need to be addressed in the long run.
The White House has not said whether it intends to pay for the increases, which could add more than $ 1.3 billion to the deficit over the course of a decade.
Friday’s request did not even fall short of the typical “lean” budgets proposed by administrations to begin the allocation process.
Instead of the typical ten-year spending window, it only addressed the discretionary budget for 2022, and contains no details on tax proposals or mandatory spending programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, which make up the bulk of annual government spending. Biden will include the details later in the spring as part of a full, formal budget request.
Conservatives are likely to cry over Biden’s proposal to not only zero in on Trump’s border wall, but also withdraw previously allocated funds, as well as his focus on upholding civil rights and police reform. Proposals on gun safety and the increase in Title X family planning are also likely to draw criticism from the right.
The decision to increase defense spending, which according to administrative officials will cover an increase in military salaries, could also backfire on progressive people, who have argued that military spending is inflated and not subject to the same supervision as other government spending.
“It took about 20 years before the Pentagon did a partial audit, and then they renounced it,” said Lindsay Koshgarian, program director of the left-wing National Priority Project.
“It’s not even a question of whether the money does good things, it’s a question of even knowing where the money is going, and even the Pentagon does not know. “You can imagine if that were the case with a social safety net program, what kind of error would it get,” she added.