Overview
- The administration released its FY2027 blueprint Friday seeking about $1.5 trillion for defense, with roughly $1.1 trillion in base funding and $350 billion routed through reconciliation, a process that lets budget bills pass the Senate with a simple majority.
- The plan directs major sums to munitions production, expanded shipbuilding, nuclear upgrades, and the Golden Dome missile defense, and it proposes 5% to 7% pay raises for service members.
- Nondefense discretionary spending would drop by $73 billion, about 10%, with steep hits to the EPA, a 55% cut to the National Science Foundation, a $5 billion reduction at the NIH, and a stated path to eliminate the Education Department.
- The White House is also reviewing a separate Pentagon supplemental of about $200 billion tied to the ongoing war in Iran, which would come on top of the FY2027 request.
- Democrats say they will block the plan, some Republicans object to the domestic cuts, and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates the proposal would add about $6.9 trillion to the debt over ten years.