{"id":544409,"date":"2021-05-28T14:35:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T18:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=544409"},"modified":"2021-05-28T14:35:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T18:35:27","slug":"biden-unveils-budget-request-for-6-trillion-in-spending-highest-since-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-unveils-budget-request-for-6-trillion-in-spending-highest-since-world-war-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Unveils Budget Request For $6 Trillion In Spending, Highest Since World War II"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-unveils-budget-request-for-6-trillion-in-spending-highest-since-world-war-ii%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=544409&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/5.27-morning-featured-jpg-scaled-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden unveiled his 2022 budget request Friday, proposing a $6 trillion spending package that would bring the U.S. to its highest levels of spending since World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/budget_fy22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plan<\/a> includes funding for his <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/06\/joe-biden-buttigieg-fact-check-brian-deese-american-jobs-plan-moodys-analytics-infrastructure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Jobs Plan<\/a> and American Families Plan, among other major initiatives. The plan calls for an increase in spending to $8.3 trillion by 2031, with each year adding a $1.3 trillion budget deficit. If that rate is maintained, the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/27\/joe-biden-trillion-budget-debt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">would surpass<\/a> even its sustained spending levels of World War II by 2024.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\" readability=\"9.6352583586626\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">President Biden\u2019s proposal includes the two historic plans he has already put forward \u2014 the American Jobs Plan and the American Families Plan. Both plans will help us seize this moment to reimagine and rebuild a new American economy that invests in every single American.<\/p>\n<p>(2\/10)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The White House (@WhiteHouse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/1398335348191674375?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Key aspects of the plan include increased spending for infrastructure such as roads and bridges, providing \u201cat least\u201d four years of free education to every American, climate change initiatives, programs aimed at ending gun violence and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/FINAL-FY22-Budget-Overview-Fact-Sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dozens of other initiatives<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/07\/senator-kirsten-gillibrand-child-care-paid-leave-infrastructure-democrats-spending-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Says The Quiet Part About Biden\u2019s \u2018Infrastructure\u2019 Plan Out Loud)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biden plans to pay for the expenditures with increased taxes on wealthy Americans, but as the yearly deficits of over $1 trillion show, that alone will not be enough to pay off the budget.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential budget requests often turn out to be little more than declarations of the administration\u2019s priorities, however. The ultimate decision of budgetary spending falls to Congress alone.<\/p>\n<p>Some Republicans on Capitol Hill have already voiced objection to Biden\u2019s spending plan, balking at the high price tag.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"12.424437299035\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">President Biden\u2019s budget is dead on arrival \u2013 just like all other presidential budgets.<\/p>\n<p>It is insanely expensive.<\/p>\n<p>It dramatically increases nondefense spending and taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Over time it will result in a weakened Department of Defense. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ji6gYfLcj5\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ji6gYfLcj5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LindseyGrahamSC\/status\/1398332736008491018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere will be serious discussions about government funding,\u201d South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham tweeted Friday. \u201cBut the Biden budget isn\u2019t serious and it won\u2019t be a part of those discussions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden unveiled his 2022 budget request Friday, proposing a $6 trillion spending package that would bring the U.S. to its highest levels of spending since World War II.Biden\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313418,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/5.27-morning-featured-jpg-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Unveils Budget Request For $6 Trillion In Spending, Highest Since World War II","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/5.27-morning-featured-jpg-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Unveils Budget Request For $6 Trillion In Spending, Highest Since World War II","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}