What President Biden Proposed in His Fiscal 2022 Spending Plan
Here’s a guide to the $1.5 trillion plan, which calls for new funding to support domestic priorities like education, biomedical research and clean energy.
President Biden on Thursday at the White House. His first spending proposal differs sharply from President Donald J. Trump’s spending priorities.Credit.Amr Alfiky/The New York Times
April 9, 2021
President Biden’s $1.52 trillion spending proposal released on Friday calls for a vast infusion of funds across federal agencies, with proposals for billions of dollars in additional spending in areas like education, public health, climate change and housing.
After Gov. Greg Abbott gave a fiery press conference outside a shelter for unaccompanied migrant children in San Antonio on Wednesday, advocacy groups said they supported his general message.
The Republican governor had called for more oversight and an immediate investigation into reports the state had received of sexual abuse inside the facility holding more than 1,300 children.
But some who have demanded improved conditions in such facilities for years said they couldn t help but question the governor s timing and motivations. Abbott largely remained silent despite reports of widespread abuse in migrant shelters during former President Donald Trump’s administration. And while he has pledged to reform a handful of state agencies with long histories of abuse, problems continue to dog the agencies he oversees.
Biden sets immigration priorities in funding plan: resettling refugees and housing migrant children By Camilo Montoya-Galvez
April 9, 2021 / 3:51 PM / CBS News
In his first funding request to Congress, President Biden outlined a starkly different set of immigration policy priorities than his predecessor, asking for billions to resettle refugees, house migrant children, speed up U.S. citizenship petitions and process asylum-seekers along the southern border.
The White House on Friday unveiled the president s $1.5 trillion discretionary funding request for fiscal year 2022, which serves a preview for a more comprehensive spending plan expected in the late spring. The preliminary spending request to Congress includes several multi-billion-dollar immigration-related allocations for the Departments of Homeland Security, State and Health and Human Services.
Biden asks Congress for 16% increase in non-defense federal spending
President Joe Biden asked Congress for $769 billion in federal outlays on discretionary, non-defense programs in his first formal spending request Friday a 16% increase from former President Donald Trump’s last budget.
The funding request for fiscal year 2022 comes on the heels of the passage of his $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill and as Congress begins to consider Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure and jobs package.
It reflects the posture Biden has taken in the first months of his presidency when it comes to reversing what White House officials believe is significant underinvestment in social programs and domestic priorities over the course of the last decade. And it erases some Trump priorities, including spending on the border wall Trump campaigned on 2016 and made a centerpiece of his administration.
Advocates back Gov Greg Abbott s call for greater oversight at migrant shelters But they question his timing and motivations krgv.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from krgv.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.