President Trump on Monday released his 2021 fiscal year budget, which included significant cuts to entitlement programs and discretionary spending, touching off a simmering battle over spending cuts.
The Trump administration has mostly avoided proposing significant spending cuts in its first three years, with the federal deficit reaching $984 billion in 2019 according to the Congressional Budget Office. But Trump's 2021 budget – which is largely a symbolic document meant to show Congress where his priorities are – is upsetting Democrats who are crying foul over cuts to entitlements. The administration claims Trump's spending plan, if implemented, would lead to a balanced budget by 2035.
"With his latest budget proposal, it's hard to imagine that President Trump could do any more to double-cross the very American workers and middle-class families he promised to help just last week in his State of the Union Address," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a statement. "By proposing severe cuts to Medicaid and Medicare, President Trump's latest budget is simply a continuation of his war to rip away health care for millions of Americans, including people with pre-existing conditions."
The budget’s most significant policy prescriptions – an immediate 5 percent cut to non-defense agency budgets passed by Congress and $700 billion in cuts to Medicaid over a decade – are part of a plan to cut $4.4 trillion in government spending over 10 years.
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