President Trump is expected to tell federal agencies to compile a budget that would increase spending on the military but cut nearly every other agency, with the Environmental Protection Agency particularly on the chopping block.
The New York Times reported Sunday night that the budget won’t include cuts to Social Security or Medicare. It is Trump’s first budget as president.
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According to the report, the budget assumes the American economy will grow at 2.4 percent this year.
The EPA is expected to face the most drastic cuts. Trump campaigned against the agency’s regulations during the campaign and installed former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, a noted EPA opponent during his time there, as the new administrator for the EPA.
It’s also the start of the first budget process for Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney, a fiscal hawk who is expected to want to shrink the size of the federal government.
