Biden pitches $5.8T plan with record tax hike

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Under the White House's blueprint, defense spending is projected to grow from $813 billion in fiscal 2023 to $843 billion in fiscal 2024 and $851 billion by 2025.
54% : The 2023 budget calls for $1.598 trillion in so-called discretionary spending -- areas that aren't linked with mandatory programs like Social Security -- with $813 billion for defense-related programs and $769 billion for domestic spending.
54% : Biden is calling for $813 billion in total defense spending for the coming year, with the bulk of the funds -- $773 billion -- going to the Pentagon in what the White House describes as "one of the largest investments in our national security in history."
54% : That includes a $33.2 billion proposal for law enforcement, crime prevention and community violence intervention programs that the White House intends as a high-profile counter to the call from some progressives to "Defund the Police."
47% : House Democrats also declined to include a version of the billionaires tax in last year's social-spending bill.
44% : While climate spending from "Build Back Better" was omitted, the $11 billion for helping other nations deploy clean energy and weather the growing consequences of climate change is more than 10 times the amount lawmakers doled to the effort in fiscal 2022.
27% : Biden also asks for $367 million for the Justice Department's budget to support police reform, prosecution of hate crimes, and enforcement of voting rights -- an increase of more than $100 million from 2021.

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