Trump Proposes $163 billion Cut to Federal Budget

Sunday, May 04, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration proposed a $163 billion cut to federal spending next year, which would eliminate more than a fifth of the non-military spending excluding mandatory programs, it said in a statement.

Posted by jpw at 10:32 PM | 23 COMMENTS | permalink

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-- Axios (@axios.com) May 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM

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I can only think of one reason to boost military and homeland security funding while withdrawing from the world stage - suppression of the US public and terrorizing the citizenry.

#1 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-02 03:32 PM

#1: I can only think of one reason to boost military and homeland security funding while withdrawing from the world stage - suppression of the US public and terrorizing the citizenry. Yup: duckswire.usatoday.com

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-02 03:38 PM

Death to Tyrants

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-05-02 07:08 PM

Bring On The Jackbooted Thugs. Federal ones, even.

Republicans love Federal police, just ask Cliven Bundy what he thinks about Bureau of Land Management!
Just ask Timothy McVeigh what he thinks about ATF and Lon Horiuchi.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-02 07:13 PM

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I am SO GLAD I looked in one more place....

next place I"m gonna check out is Bellevue and see if they had some

beds open.

I'll post the info in printed parts of a newspaper so I can

keep your conspiracy theory alive for you.

#5 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-05-04 03:52 PM

just what I thought...posted 2 days ago and just now 5 posts.

even your fellow psychopathic nut bags don't want a part of this stupidity.

#6 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-05-04 03:53 PM

Lefties and Democrats think government spending. Is way too low. $37 trillion in debt needs to be doubled.

#7 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-05-05 03:07 AM

Lefties and Democrats think government spending. Is way too low. $37 trillion in debt needs to be doubled.

Posted by BellRinger at 2025-05-05 03:07 AM | Reply

You lost the right to complain when you stayed silent when you supported trillion dollar wars. Just sayin

#8 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-05-05 03:13 AM

"$37 trillion in debt needs to be doubled."

Don't worry, Trump will drive up the debt and bankrupt the country, just like you Confederates have always wanted.

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-05 03:49 AM

It is as if Trump sees it as his duty to make Americans fear him, and the rest of the world to buy him off.
Are we sure Jared really didn't set up a good back door to the Kremlin? Much of what Trump is doing is pure Putin.

#10 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-05-05 07:17 AM

Lefties and Democrats think government spending. Is way too low. $37 trillion in debt needs to be doubled.

#7 | Posted by BellRinger

So are you unaware of or just ignoring the fact that these "cuts" are completely wiped out by the unnecessary boost in military spending?

And that's not even considering the tax cuts they're pushing...

#11 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-05 09:10 AM

Democrats tax and spend.
Republicans borrow and spend.
That's all there is to it.

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-05 09:15 AM

Billions more for a wall that has already proven to be easily surmounted, at the cost of getting addicts clean, feeding children and repairing roads. Your MAGA neighbors will not be able to make the connection, but will travel to some God-forsaken part of west Texas to see a monument to hubris, mental illness and cowardice...

#13 | Posted by catdog at 2025-05-05 09:33 AM

#12 | Posted by snoofy

True. At least the Dems "tax and spend" pays lip service to the concept of paying for the spending. It's Republicans "borrow and spend" to give giant tax cuts to the rich, who seem to think the credit card is unlimited.

Fiscal conservatism, my ---.

#14 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-05-05 11:06 AM

Fiscal Conservatives died with Eisenhower.

#15 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-05-05 12:26 PM

#15: And Eisenhower was the last Republican president to win his election cleanly (e.g. Nixon's sabotage of LBJ's peace plan in 1968, Bush-Gore in 2000, Russian interference for Trumpf in 2016, and Felon Musk/AIPAC interference for Trumpf in 2024).

#16 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-05 12:46 PM

Lefties and Democrats think government spending. Is way too low. $37 trillion in debt needs to be doubled.

#7 | Posted by BellRinger

Interesting you would mention that.

Tax Cut Extensions Would Add $37 Trillion to Debt by 2054

https://www.crfb.org/blogs/tax-cut-extensions-would-add-37-trillion-debt-2054

#17 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2025-05-05 01:21 PM

"Tax Cut Extensions Would Add $37 Trillion to Debt"

Annnnd, if you'll notice, Mr Screech-About-Deficits has gone silent.

Gee ... I wonder why?

#18 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-05-05 04:40 PM

Lefties and Democrats think government spending. Is way too low. $37 trillion in debt needs to be doubled.

#7 | Posted by BellRinger

Idiot.

The budget INCREASES spending.

All the money "savings" from program cuts are just moved to defense and border patrol plus some.

So tell us how this lowers government spending?

Are Trumpers really this stupid? Obviously yes, they are. MAGA-Math.

#19 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-05-06 10:26 AM

The issue is we are going bankrupt and it will be suddenly too, and that means we will have nothing if we don't quit spending beyond our means. Democrats don't get it and so do many Republicans. It will take necessary mindset pain to change it.

#20 | Posted by Robson at 2025-05-06 11:27 AM

Democrats don't get it and so do many Republicans.

Do you understand how blatantly stupid this statement is on this thread?

Did you even read it? Are you not going to acknowledge the last almost 3 decades of GOP fiscal policy that was debt debt debt?

#21 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-06 12:52 PM

The budget INCREASES spending.
All the money "savings" from program cuts are just moved to defense and border patrol plus some.
So tell us how this lowers government spending?

Dear leader says it lowers spending, so of course Jeff guzzles the kool aid.

#22 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-05-06 02:40 PM

I could've sworn the gop said our debt doesn't matter since it's in our currency.

#23 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-05-06 05:16 PM

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