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WATCH: Trump’s budget request is ‘morally bankrupt,’ Sen. Murray says in hearing with OMB director
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1:53Now PlayingSen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., denounced President Donald Trump’s $1.5 trillion budget request as “morally bankrupt” in a hearing Thursday held by the Senate Budget Committee.
“A budget is really an expression of our morals and our values,” she told Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, “and frankly, looking at Trump's latest budget, I don't see this very moral budget.”
The senator blasted the president’s budget request, saying it’s cutting billions of dollars in spending for housing, health care and education, while spending much more on defense to support the Iran war.
"We should be sending more funding to our schools right here in America, not, in my opinion, buying more missiles that Trump can fire on schools in Iran," she said.
“It will not shock you to hear that I believe that this budget is morally bankrupt, and also by any objective measure deeply irresponsible because it will rob our families and burden our grandkids with mountains of new debt and for what? For what? So Trump has more bombs, he can threaten to end civilizations with?” Murray added.
Vought said he fully supported the president’s budget request.
Vought, a key figure in the Trump administration's efforts to shrink the federal workforce, also defended the president's budget request in a House hearing Wednesday.
President Donald Trump's funding wish list for fiscal year 2027 includes a staggering bump for defense spending — a nearly 50% increase to $1.5 trillion — to build his "dream military."
The president's budget request is not final, but it does signal the Trump administration's priorities for the coming fiscal year. Though Trump has tried to exert more authority over spending in his second term, it's up to both chambers to revise and approve the final budget in the coming months.
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