WASHINGTON—The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released President Donald Trump’s discretionary budget request for the fiscal year 2026 on Friday, showing big increases in border and defense spending as well as massive cuts to woke funding priorities instituted by President Joe Biden’s administration.
The new budget reduces non-defense discretionary spending by $163 billion, or 23%, from the 2025 enacted level. That is the lowest non-defense spending level since 2017, according to OMB.
At the same time, defense spending will be increased by 13% under the proposed budget, and appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security will be increased by almost 65%, OMB said. In a release, OMB said that the increases in funding are “to ensure that our military and other agencies repelling the invasion of our border have the resources they need to complete the mission.”
The funding increases will be achieved if the “One Big Beautiful Bill” passes. OMB said in a release that it will be enacted “with a simple majority in the Congress,” and warns against Democrats holding it hostage “for wasteful spending increases that have been the status quo in Washington.”
“For decades, the biggest complaint about the Federal Budget was wasteful spending and bloated bureaucracy,” Russ Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, said in a statement on Friday morning. “But over the last four years, Government spending aggressively turned against the American people and trillions of our dollars were used to fund cultural Marxism, radical Green New Scams, and even our own invasion.”
“No agency was spared in the Left’s taxpayer-funded cultural revolution,” Vought added. “At this critical moment, we need a historic Budget—one that ends the funding of our decline, puts Americans first, and delivers unprecedented support to our military and homeland security. The President’s Budget does all of that.”
During a press call with reporters on Friday morning, senior OMB officials described how they worked closely with the Department of Government Efficiency as they developed the budget request.
Asked by The Daily Wire about the increases in defense spending, a senior OMB official described those increases as “truly historic.”
“I can’t say that the defense is the highest, but it is, it is on par with what was seen in the Reagan administration and the president’s first term for sure, if you look at the levels as a percentage of GDP,” the official explained. “So very, very high levels.”
“We’ve never seen an investment like this on the Homeland Security side, it’s something that, I think will be vital, and as we said, paradigm shifting in terms of how we secure those resources, to make sure that this is the honestly the last time we have to have a funding conversation about whether the border is going to be adequately funded,” that official added.
OMB is very excited about the impact that the funding will have on this front and what it will buy in terms of fixing the border problems created by the previous administration, the official shared.
“We want to make sure that the enduring infrastructure and the agencies have the resources to ensure that it can never be a problem again,” the official said.
According to a release from OMB, the president’s key priorities of the budget request include ending weaponization and reducing violent crime; defunding the “harmful woke, Marxist agenda,” securing the border; realigning foreign aid to ensure it is efficient and consistent with American foreign policy; rebuilding the nation’s military; achieving American energy dominance; making America healthy again, supporting veterans; preserving social security; streamlining K-12 education funding and parental choices; supporting space flight, addressing drug abuse; improving wildland fire fighting, and more.
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WASHINGTON—The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released President Donald Trump’s discretionary budget request for the fiscal year 2026 on Friday, showing big increases in border and defense spending as well as massive cuts to woke funding priorities instituted by President Joe Biden’s administration.
The new budget reduces non-defense discretionary spending by $163 billion, or 23%, from the 2025 enacted level. That is the lowest non-defense spending level since 2017, according to OMB.
At the same time, defense spending will be increased by 13% under the proposed budget, and appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security will be increased by almost 65%, OMB said. In a release, OMB said that the increases in funding are “to ensure that our military and other agencies repelling the invasion of our border have the resources they need to complete the mission.”
The funding increases will be achieved if the “One Big Beautiful Bill” passes. OMB said in a release that it will be enacted “with a simple majority in the Congress,” and warns against Democrats holding it hostage “for wasteful spending increases that have been the status quo in Washington.”
“For decades, the biggest complaint about the Federal Budget was wasteful spending and bloated bureaucracy,” Russ Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, said in a statement on Friday morning. “But over the last four years, Government spending aggressively turned against the American people and trillions of our dollars were used to fund cultural Marxism, radical Green New Scams, and even our own invasion.”
“No agency was spared in the Left’s taxpayer-funded cultural revolution,” Vought added. “At this critical moment, we need a historic Budget—one that ends the funding of our decline, puts Americans first, and delivers unprecedented support to our military and homeland security. The President’s Budget does all of that.”
During a press call with reporters on Friday morning, senior OMB officials described how they worked closely with the Department of Government Efficiency as they developed the budget request.
Asked by The Daily Wire about the increases in defense spending, a senior OMB official described those increases as “truly historic.”
“I can’t say that the defense is the highest, but it is, it is on par with what was seen in the Reagan administration and the president’s first term for sure, if you look at the levels as a percentage of GDP,” the official explained. “So very, very high levels.”
“We’ve never seen an investment like this on the Homeland Security side, it’s something that, I think will be vital, and as we said, paradigm shifting in terms of how we secure those resources, to make sure that this is the honestly the last time we have to have a funding conversation about whether the border is going to be adequately funded,” that official added.
OMB is very excited about the impact that the funding will have on this front and what it will buy in terms of fixing the border problems created by the previous administration, the official shared.
“We want to make sure that the enduring infrastructure and the agencies have the resources to ensure that it can never be a problem again,” the official said.
According to a release from OMB, the president’s key priorities of the budget request include ending weaponization and reducing violent crime; defunding the “harmful woke, Marxist agenda,” securing the border; realigning foreign aid to ensure it is efficient and consistent with American foreign policy; rebuilding the nation’s military; achieving American energy dominance; making America healthy again, supporting veterans; preserving social security; streamlining K-12 education funding and parental choices; supporting space flight, addressing drug abuse; improving wildland fire fighting, and more.
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