Biden’s Not So “Skinny” Budget

Biden’s Cabinet Testifies Today About His Bloated Liberal Wish List That Comes At The Expense Of America’s National Security

NOTHING “SKINNY” ABOUT BIDEN’S SPENDING

• Today, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, and VA Secretary Denis McDonough will testify on Biden’s FY 2022 budget request.
• Last week in a Friday news dump, Biden released his $1.5 trillion “skinny budget.”

• This comes on top of the massive spending spree that Biden is already on:
  • Biden signed a partisan $1.9 trillion progressive wish list in March.
  • Biden recently released a $2.25 trillion “infrastructure” package where just 7 percent of the funding goes to roads, bridges, airports, and waterways.
  • Biden is expected to soon introduce another multi-trillion dollar “family plan,” but refused to include details in his budget.

BIDEN’S BUDGET CUTS DEFENSE SPENDING, PUTTING AMERICA AT RISK

• Biden’s $715 billion request for the Defense Department is a cut to defense spending.
  • Biden is effectively asking for a 4 percent cut in defense spending when adjusted for inflation.
  • This budget request is below the Trump administration’s $722 billion forecast.
• Biden’s “skinny budget” is the latest sign Biden is failing to take the threat of China seriously.
• National security experts have been clear: a 3 to 5 percent increase in Defense spending is necessary to counter the threat of a rising China.
  • Then-Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: “In the years ahead, we need to get back to 3 to 5 percent real growth annually.”
  • Then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joe Dunford: The Department of Defense needs annual growth of “3 percent to maintain the competitive level” and “need at least 5 percent for several years to come, before we can be competitive.”
  • Even Biden’s Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks agrees that this 3 to 5 percent growth is “an accurate reflection of what it would take” to meet the growing challenges presented by China and Russia as laid out in the 2018 National Defense Strategy.

BIDEN’S BUDGET IS A LIBERAL WISH LIST

• While Biden chose to neglect America’s national defense, he bloated non-defense discretionary spending by 16 percent.
• This includes spending on priorities like Green New Deal-style polices, gun control measures, and more.
  • $1.4 billion to pursue “environmental justice.”
  • $1.2 billion to meet Paris Climate Agreement objectives.
  • $400 million that can be used by state and local governments to establish gun buyback programs.
  • Reinstate funding for the U.N. Population Fund, which supports abortion and forced sterilization in China.

BIDEN’S BUDGET DISGREGARDS THE CRISIS AT THE BORDER

• Biden’s budget request would nix funding of the border wall during an immigration crisis.
  • It would also cancel unused funds previously allocated to the wall.