Fleshed-Out Trump Budget Would Cut $48.8 Billion in Program Spending

In part two of its unusual bifurcated budget release, the Trump administration on Monday put more flesh on the bones of last week’s $4.7 trillion fiscal 2020 budget, promising discretionary spending cuts of $48.8 billion through an “aggressive set of actions to redefine the proper role of the federal government.” The release of the analytical and historic tables, appendices and a chapter titled “Major Savings and Reforms,” provides program-level specifics on the previously announced proposed cuts to the budgets of the Environmental Protection Agency (31.2 percent), the State Department (23.3 percent), and the Transportation Department (21.5 percent). And it shows the Office of Management and Budget assuming that many of its already-announced reorganization plans will go through, such as those at the Office of Personnel Management and the General Services Administration.