Trump's Budget Plan: a 10% Cut, but With $1.5 Trillion for Defense
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:32.6 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. The White House releases President |
| 0:40.6 | Trump's 2027 budget request, including a 10% cut to non-defense programs and $1.5 trillion for the |
| 0:48.4 | Pentagon. What are the highlights of this document? What does it say about the president's |
| 0:52.6 | priorities? And will Congress's appropriators |
| 0:55.5 | take or leave that advice? Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by |
| 1:01.8 | my colleagues on the journal's opinion pages, columnist Kim Strassel, and editorial board member, |
| 1:07.8 | Kate O'Dell. On Friday, the White House release has requested budget of the |
| 1:11.9 | U.S. government, a 92-page document full of numbers, but also policy proposals. Of course, |
| 1:18.3 | the spending power in the American system belongs to Congress under Article 1 of the Constitution. |
| 1:23.5 | So one question with presidential budgets is also how much Congress is going to take them into account when it decides on what to spend. |
| 1:32.3 | On that point, let's listen to former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney on C-SPAN's ceasefire program responding to this budget document. |
| 1:41.8 | Congress always responds the same way, which is they say they say it's dead on arrival. |
| 1:46.5 | I don't care what party you're in. |
| 1:48.7 | Look, Congress spends the money. |
| 1:51.1 | I know people say, oh, Donald Trump contributed so much to the debt. |
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