President Trump released his fourth budget proposal [[link removed]] this week, and its priorities are crystal clear.

Across the board, the Trump 2021 budget prioritizes brute force and military solutions over humanitarian and diplomatic ones.

Trump's budget would put 55% of the $1.3 trillion discretionary budget [[link removed]] toward the military. By 2030, that proportion would increase to 62% military, pri marily through ongoing reductions in domestic spending.

While proposing spending increases to militarized agencies like the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security, the Trump budget threatens just about everything else with cuts [[link removed]] .

Among other anti-human priorities, the Trump budget would:

*Spend less to alleviate poverty and more on the Pentagon, disregarding the will of the majority of Americans who support shifting military spending to domestic priorities. 
*Extend the war on immigrants with more funding for ICE, Border Patrol, and a wall. 
*Keep the wars but scrap the diplomacy, fully funding forever wars and increasing foreign military aid, while drastically cutting funds for development aid and peace-building. 
*Ignore the real threat, climate change, while cutting funds for renewable energy and encouraging a competitive arms race, when what we really need is a cooperative global energy race.  

On top of everything else, Trump's new militarized budget isn't just immoral—it's also unaffordable [[link removed]] , as Lindsay writes in Truthout. It's time to flip the script on critics who keep questioning how we can possibly pay for progressive proposals like Medicare for All or a Green New Deal.
Congress is unlikely to pass Trump's 2021 budget proposal as is. But it's up to all of us to resist this militarized agenda, and organize this year and beyond for a moral budget that rises to the urgent crises of our time.

Read NPP's statement on the Trump budget [[link removed]] and blog posts [[link removed]] breaking down its spending priorities, and share widely on Facebook [[link removed]] and Twitter [[link removed]] !

In solidarity,
Lindsay, Ashik, and the NPP team at IPS

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