{"id":9544,"date":"2026-04-04T21:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/9544\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:26:09","slug":"us-democrats-fume-at-white-house-budget-request-bleak-unacceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/9544\/","title":{"rendered":"US Democrats Fume at White House Budget Request: \u2018Bleak, Unacceptable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Islam Times – US Democrats on Friday blasted the White House\u2019s fiscal 2027 budget request, warning that it fails to address the needs of Americans and undermines critical domestic programs and priorities.The request, prepared by White House budget chief Russell Vought and unveiled Friday morning, calls for $1.5 trillion in defense spending, a roughly 42 percent increase from 2026 funding levels, that would replenish critical munitions and expand the defense industrial base, among other things. It comes as the US war against Iran stretches to five weeks with no clear end in sight.<\/p>\n

At the same time, it proposes cutting nondefense spending by $73 billion by eliminating what the White House deems \u201cwoke, weaponized, and wasteful programs\u201d and \u201creturning State and local responsibilities to their respective governments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Top Democrats on the House and Senate Appropriations and Budget committees quickly railed against the proposal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe vision US President Trump has outlined for America in his budget is bleak and unacceptable. President Trump wants to slash medical research to fund costly foreign wars. It doesn\u2019t get more backward than that, and the only responsible thing to do with a budget this morally bankrupt is to toss it in the trash,\u201d said Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), the vice chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cImagine how many families we could help if, instead of giving the Pentagon more money than they can even figure out what to do with, we cut people\u2019s heating bills in half and made child care affordable for every family in America,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, said the proposal is \u201cdead on arrival,\u201d arguing it is \u201cjust an out-of-touch plea for more money for guns and bombs, and less for the things people need, like housing, health care, education, roads, scientific research, and environmental protection.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.), the ranking member of the House Budget Committee, said the budget represents \u201cAmerica Last,\u201d and added that he will be demanding answers from Vought, who is scheduled to testify before the House Budget Committee on April 15.<\/p>\n

While a president\u2019s budget proposal is seen as more of a wish list than a bill that will be enacted, it serves as a statement of priorities and a roadmap for Republicans in Congress.<\/p>\n

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Trump\u2019s budget is \u201crotten to the core\u201d and vowed that Democrats will stand against it.<\/p>\n

Republicans, meanwhile, have swiftly embraced Trump\u2019s proposal, framing it as a fulfillment of key campaign promises.<\/p>\n

\u201cUS President Trump\u2019s proposed budget for FY27 fulfills Republicans\u2019 commitment to restore fiscal sanity, reduce waste, fraud, and abuse in Washington, make our streets and neighborhoods safe again, and further ignite the American dream. These are the things we ran on and that the American people voted for,\u201d House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said in a statement. \n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Islam Times – US Democrats on Friday blasted the White House\u2019s fiscal 2027 budget request, warning that it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[8647,8654,3916,2645,5651,3219,8651,1062,504,8660,486,8661,8657,8653,8650,8644,961,8652,7594,4941,8658,738,7671,8663,8662,8646,8656,735,8649,5668,8648,8659,107,8655,8645],"class_list":{"0":"post-9544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chuck-schumer","8":"tag-bleak","9":"tag-8654","10":"tag-address","11":"tag-americans","12":"tag-and","13":"tag-at","14":"tag-blasted","15":"tag-budget","16":"tag-chuck-schumer","17":"tag-critical","18":"tag-democrats","19":"tag-domestic","20":"tag-fails","21":"tag-fiscal","22":"tag-friday","23":"tag-fume","24":"tag-house","25":"tag-houses","26":"tag-islam","27":"tag-it","28":"tag-needs","29":"tag-of","30":"tag-on","31":"tag-priorities","32":"tag-programs","33":"tag-request","34":"tag-that","35":"tag-the","36":"tag-times","37":"tag-to","38":"tag-unacceptable","39":"tag-undermines","40":"tag-us","41":"tag-warning","42":"tag-white"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}