Biden's First Budget Request to Congress Prioritizes Domestic Spending

Biden's First Budget Request to Congress Prioritizes Domestic Spending

Biden's First Budget Request to Congress, Prioritizes Domestic Spending.

Biden is seeking congressional authorization for a $1.5 trillion spending plan to be implemented in 2022.

Overall, the plan increases non-defense spending by 16 percent, .

While holding steady on defense spending.

The plan seeks a 41 percent increase in education funding, aimed primarily at Title I, high-poverty schools.

The Department of Health and Human Services would see a 23 percent increase to its funding, .

With a nearly $9 billion increase earmarked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Public housing initiatives would be increased by 15 percent.

And $14 billion would fund environmental protections.

Together, America has a chance not simply to go back to the way things were before the COVID-19 pandemic and economic downturn struck, but to begin building a better, stronger, more secure, more inclusive America, Shalanda Young, Acting White House Budget Chief, via 'The Washington Post'