Biden Asks for $1.5 Trillion in First Budget Request, Including 16 Percent Domestic Spending Boost
President Biden on Friday asked Congress to authorize a $1.52 trillion federal spending plan for 2022, which gives a sense of his administration’s priorities, calling for a 16 percent increase in funding for non-defense domestic programs and a relatively flat 1.7 percent increase for defense.
Biden’s first discretionary spending request, detailed in a blueprint (pdf) from the White House’s acting budget chief, Shalanda Young, calls on Congress to provide $769 billion for non-defense programs and $753 billion in national defense funding for the upcoming fiscal year.
The request is a precursor to a bigger, annual budget proposal that will come later in spring and will cover mandatory spending on programs like Social Security and Medicare. Discretionary spending requests, which are subject to the appropriations process and require Congress to set a new funding level each year, can
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“If this year has taught us anything, it’s that the biggest threats posed to our country really aren t foreign armies,” Murphy said in a statement. “This is why it’s so mind-boggling that our Defense Department budget continues to increase by tens of billions of dollars each year, while funding for other vital national security agencies has remained flat.”
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Congress funded the State Department through 2021 with an estimated $61 billion, an increase of 6.6 percent from the previous year, according to a report from the Congressional Research Service.
The lawmakers are proposing increasing the State Department budget to $68.7 billion for 2022, compared to the amount appropriated in 2020, $56.6 billion, according to a budget plan.