Legislative Calls to Action -- April 8, 2026
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Attorney General
With the firing of Pam Bondi, Todd Blanche will be serving as acting attorney general. This is the guy who was Trump’s lawyer when he was convicted on 34 felony counts related to falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to adult actress Stormy Daniels.
Just last week, Blanche exclaimed his enthusiasm for sending ICE to polling places where the American people vote. Even though the deployment of armed federal law enforcement to any polling place is patently illegal unless needed “to repel armed enemies of the United States.”
We don’t yet know who Trump will pick to be his next attorney general. But whoever it is will have to be confirmed by a majority in the United States Senate. Contact your senators (Contact - Senator Young Contact - Senator Jim Banks) to tell them:
Trump’s budget proposal
President Trump on Friday proposed a $2.2 trillion fiscal 2027 budget, an overall increase on current spending that would include cutting non-defense agencies by 10%, or by $73 billion.
President Trump has proposed boosting defense spending to $1.5 trillion in his 2027 budget released Friday, the largest such request in decades, reflecting his emphasis on U.S. military investments over domestic programs.
The sizable increase for the Pentagon, some 44%, had been telegraphed by the Republican president even before the U.S.-led war against Iran. The president's plan would also reduce spending on non-defense programs by 10%.
Trump, speaking ahead of an address to the nation this week about the Iran war, signaled the military is his priority, setting up a clash ahead in Congress.
"We're fighting wars. We can't take care of day care," Trump said at a private White House event Wednesday.
"It's not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare — all these individual things," he said. "They can do it on a state basis. You can't do it on a federal."
Among the priorities the White House called for:
Supporting the Trump administration's immigration enforcement and deportation operations by eliminating aspects of a refugee resettlement aid program, maintaining Immigration and Customs Enforcement funds at current year levels and drawing on last's year's increases for the Department of Homeland Security funds to continue opening detention facilities, including 100,000 beds for adults and 30,000 for families.
A 13% increase in funding for the Department of Justice to focus on violent criminals and the president's promise to stop what the White House calls migrant crime.
A $10 billion fund within the National Park Service for "construction and beautification" projects in Washington, D.C..
A $481 million increase in funding to enhance aviation safety and support an air traffic controller hiring surge.
Cuts to green energy, housing and health programs
Cancels more than $15 billion from the Biden-era bipartisan infrastructure law, including funds for renewable energy projects and cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, grants.
19% cut in the Department of Agriculture, ending certain university grants, a 13% cut for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and about a 12% decrease to the Health and Human Services department, including cuts to a low-income heating assistance program.
The White House is touting cuts of what it calls "woke programs" that often direct federal investments toward low-income communities. The budget used the word "woke" 34 times.
For example, the administration is looking to cut Community Services Block Grants, which funds activities such as financial and job counseling and helping people obtain adequate housing. The administration says its cuts would target grants "hijacked by radicals" to promote equity-building and green energy initiatives.
The president also seeks to cut $106 million in funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which it says has "pushed radical gender ideology onto children."
All told, the budget would eliminate dozens of grant and assistance programs focused on scientific and medical research, climate change, job training, housing, energy costs for low income Americans, refugees and migrants, disaster preparedness and many other areas across government. (Government Executive and PBS). Here is a summary:
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