Trump's 2027 budget proposal.
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Isaac Saul
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🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Last week, the White House released its budget proposal for fiscal year 2027, featuring an increase of 42% in defense spending to $1.5 trillion and a 10% decrease in non-defense spending to $660 billion. Specifically, the White House requested the budget to increase the capacity of the Navy, give pay raises to troops, resupply munitions, invest in critical resources, and build a “Golden Dome” missile defense system. The administration characterized the non-defense spending it had identified to cut as part of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and “woke programs” that drive government waste.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of our take. I'm your host today, senior editor Will Kayback. |
| 0:33.6 | Today's episode covers a lot of issues that we've covered quite frequently over the first year or so of the second Trump administration and going back to the Biden administration. |
| 0:45.9 | Things like spending cuts, deficit reduction, debt, military spending, entitlement spending, all of the above. |
| 0:53.4 | And the reason it's all packaged together |
| 0:55.0 | is because the focus is President Trump's fiscal year 2027 budget proposal. This is something that |
| 1:02.1 | presidents release every year. It functions as a bit of a wish list, a bit of a PR exercise to |
| 1:08.0 | broadcast their priorities. And of course, Congress has to take a look over all of it, |
| 1:12.8 | make changes, and it often ends up looking a lot different than the original document. But regardless, |
| 1:18.0 | there is a lot to glean from what Trump has put into this year's budget request. So we're going to |
| 1:22.8 | break down all of the different categories of spending, the cuts they're recommending, the funding |
| 1:27.2 | increases that they're recommending, the funding increases |
| 1:27.8 | that they're asking for, and everything else in between. Before we do, wanted to flag that we've |
| 1:33.3 | got a new video up on our YouTube channel today, and it's a good one. Managing editor Ari Weitzman |
| 1:39.2 | recently spoke with the former governor of New Jersey, Christine Whitman. She also served as EPA administrator, |
| 1:46.4 | and they unpacked one of the most complex challenges in public policy today, actually something |
| 1:51.6 | that dovetails nicely with the main story that we're covering today. And that's how to balance |
| 1:56.2 | environmental protection with economic reality. Those two things are often presented as intention, |
| 2:02.4 | and politicians tend to haggle over one side or the other. But Whitman talks in her interview with |
| 2:08.1 | Ari about how climate and environment policy has evolved over time and why regulations like |
| 2:14.4 | the endangerment finding, which we covered back in February, have become central |
| 2:19.1 | to how the United States addresses greenhouse gas emissions. So it's a great interview, |
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