Biden’s 2022 budget marks departure from Trump

4/9/21
U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday unveiled a budget proposal that represents a sharp reversal to former President Donald Trump's budget objectives. The proposal - what's known as an early 'skinny' version of his 2022 federal budget - increases discretionary spending by 8.4% compared to 2021 levels, and asks Congress to sharply increase spending to combat climate change and gun violence and to support education. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Friday said the budget quote "makes things fairer," and "injects capital into communities where capital is usually hard to come by." Biden would increase spending by $14 billion across agencies to deal with the effects of greenhouse gas emissions, a shift from the Trump administration's dismissal of climate science. The president would spend millions on dealing with humanitarian crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. But not a single dollar for the construction of a border wall - a hallmark item from Trump's presidency missing from this budget. Making up about half of the U.S. discretionary budget, military and defense spending would increase by 1.7% to $753 billion.

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