{"id":4931,"date":"2021-04-12T17:38:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T17:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4931"},"modified":"2021-04-12T17:38:59","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T17:38:59","slug":"bidens-1-5-trillion-budget-request-would-fund-all-nails-needed-for-the-coffin-of-fiscal-restraint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4931","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s $1.5 Trillion Budget Request Would Fund All Nails Needed for the Coffin of Fiscal Restraint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;the White House&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/FY2022-Discretionary-Request.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released<\/a>&nbsp;its first budget request. It has asked Congress to approve a $1.52 trillion budget, including $769 billion in non-defense discretionary spending (a 16 percent increase over fiscal year 2021) and $753 billion in defense spending (a 1.7 percent increase).&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;Biden&#8217;s budget request includes huge funding boosts for federal agencies. The Associated Press&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-health-immigration-coronavirus-pandemic-environment-369a51d4fc79c20f9c4a57f7961b8e4d?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=AP_Politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reports<\/a>&nbsp;he&#8217;s asking for a 41 percent boost in Education Department funding, and a 23 percent increase in spending on the Department of Health and Human Services. The government&#8217;s climate change efforts would get a $14 billion bump, while appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development would jump 15 percent.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;White House budget requests are political documents, and this will kick off months of negotiations. The topline $1.5 trillion figure could shrink somewhat.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"VPhuhYE13f\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/04\/09\/bidens-1-5-trillion-budget-request-would-fund-all-nails-needed-for-the-coffin-of-fiscal-restraint\/\">Biden&#8217;s $1.5 Trillion Budget Request Would Fund All Nails Needed for the Coffin of Fiscal Restraint<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Biden&#039;s $1.5 Trillion Budget Request Would Fund All Nails Needed for the Coffin of Fiscal Restraint&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/04\/09\/bidens-1-5-trillion-budget-request-would-fund-all-nails-needed-for-the-coffin-of-fiscal-restraint\/embed\/#?secret=0BG9dSiXbv#?secret=VPhuhYE13f\" data-secret=\"VPhuhYE13f\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;the White House released its first budget request. It has asked Congress to approve a $1.52 trillion budget, including $769 billion in non-defense discretionary spending (a 16 percent increase over fiscal year 2021) and $753 billion in defense spending (a 1.7 percent increase).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Biden&#8217;s budget request includes huge funding boosts for federal agencies. The Associated Press reports he&#8217;s asking for a 41 percent boost in Education Department funding, and a 23 percent increase in spending on the Department of Health and Human Services. The government&#8217;s climate change efforts would get a $14 billion bump, while appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development would jump 15 percent.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;White House budget requests are political documents, and this will kick off months of negotiations. The topline $1.5 trillion figure could shrink somewhat.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[450,217,411,279],"class_list":["post-4931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-budget","tag-economics","tag-policy","tag-spending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4932,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4931\/revisions\/4932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}