Biden pitches $5.8 trillion 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% : Defense Programs 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."
50% : While climate spending from "Build Back Better" was omitted, the president does ask to dedicate $11 billion in taxpayer dollars to helping other nations deploy clean energy and weather the growing consequences of climate change -- more than 10 times the amount lawmakers doled to the effort in fiscal 2022.
47% : House Democrats also declined to include a version of the billionaires tax in last year's social-spending bill.
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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