Current Federal Budget: $4 trillion
- Entitlements, security (military and security agencies), and interest: $3.5 trillion (87.5%)
- Discretionary civilian budget*: $.5 trillion (12.5%)
Proposed Trump Budget:
- Cut $54 billion from the discretionary civilian budget next year to pay for greatly increased military spending.
subsidies for higher education and housing assistance for the poor. It finances the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration. It pays for the Federal Emergency Management Agency and training programs for unemployed workers. Without such spending, the government becomes little more than a heavily armed pension plan with a health insurer on the side.