The Trump administration’s anti-LGBTQ+ agenda is all over its proposed federal budget for next year, with related cuts suggested at nearly every federal department, totaling billions of dollars.
Any program that seemed to support what the administration deemed “radical leftists” or “gender ideology” in any way appeared to be on the chopping block — even at agencies such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Treasury Department.
The federal budget needs approval from Congress before it becomes final, and changes are likely. But the budget is an opportunity for an administration to lay out its top priorities, and it’s clear where the administration’s priorities lie: expanding the military’s budget by $1.5 trillion while cutting non-defense spending by $73 billion. The budget proposes devastating cuts to gender-affirming care and HIV services, as well as to grant programs, universities and nonprofits that support LGBTQ+ people.
At every turn, the proposal points to grants and research funds that have served LGBTQ+ people as examples of spending that are not aligned with the government’s “core mission” and argues for “reducing or eliminating woke, weaponized, and wasteful programs.”
