The GOP Wants to Cut Social Programs in Favor of Military Spending. Biden Is Enabling Them.
The House GOP’s new budget would — surprise, surprise — further balloon militarized spending and take the axe to social programs. And Joe Biden’s love for military spending isn’t helping things.
US army soldiers stand near an armored military vehicle in Syria on March 27, 2023. (Delil Souleiman / AFP via Getty Images)
Last week, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy unveiled the Limit, Save, Grow Act, the House GOP’s budget plan. The bill would cap fiscal year 2024 federal spending at FY2022 levels, or about $260 billion less than the $1.73 trillion budget Joe Biden proposed last month. Here’s how the FY2022 budget divvied up that $1.47 trillion:
The FY2024 budget won’t end up looking like FY2022’s, however. Even though McCarthy’s bill doesn’t specify which parts of the federal budget would be slashed, social programs are clearly the GOP’s primary target.
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