“Our view on presidential budgets is that no matter who is in the White House, they’re of very limited use. These are political documents that end up being used as cudgels against the president’s own party,” Punchbowl News reports.
“Yet with Republicans controlling all of Washington, President Donald Trump’s FY2026 spending blueprint matters.
The spending levels and programmatic priorities will help shape how Republican appropriators craft government funding bills ahead of the Sept. 30 deadline.”“The bad news, though, is that if Trump is serious about these numbers – White House officials insist they are – then it’s going to be a very difficult fall with a likely government shutdown after FY2025 funding runs out on Sept. 30.”
Politico: “Hill Republicans are signaling that they may OK only a small portion of DOGE’s cuts.”