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Trump budget proposal pairs cuts to some agencies with increased defense spending

Trump's budget proposal for next year includes cuts to some federal agencies paired with an increase in defense spending. What's not included is evidence of the billions DOGE has claimed to save.

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Corrected: May 8, 2025 at 8:16 AM MDT
An earlier version of this page's headline misspelled President Trump's last name as Turmp. It has been corrected.
Stephen Fowler
Stephen Fowler is a political reporter with NPR's Washington Desk and will be covering the 2024 election based in the South. Before joining NPR, he spent more than seven years at Georgia Public Broadcasting as its political reporter and host of the Battleground: Ballot Box podcast, which covered voting rights and legal fallout from the 2020 presidential election, the evolution of the Republican Party and other changes driving Georgia's growing prominence in American politics. His reporting has appeared everywhere from the Center for Public Integrity and the Columbia Journalism Review to the PBS NewsHour and ProPublica.
Steve Inskeep is a host of NPR's Morning Edition, as well as NPR's morning news podcast Up First.

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