List of potential program eliminations tied to $1.5 trillion military plan

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Trump is seeking to pay for his new $1.5 trillion military budget by cutting the following:

$510 million – Grants for farmers and agricultural research
$82 million – Loans for rural small businesses (Fully eliminated)
$61 million – Support for farmers and food markets (Fully eliminated)
$240 million – School meals and food education for children abroad (Fully eliminated)
$659 million – Community building grants
$47 million – Support for minority-owned businesses (Fully eliminated)
$449 million – Economic development grants for communities
$1.6 billion – Weather forecasting, fisheries, and coastal protection (NOAA)
$993 million – Scientific research and technology standards
$150 million – Support for American exports and trade
$2.2 billion – Broadband and internet access programs
$8.5 billion – Funding for public schools
$1.5 billion – Vocational training and adult education (Fully eliminated)
$2.7 billion – College access and higher education support
$15.2 billion – Roads, bridges, and infrastructure projects
$1.1 billion – Home energy efficiency and clean energy programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.1 billion – Scientific research funding
$386 million – Environmental cleanup programs
$150 million – Cutting-edge clean energy research
$4 billion – Help paying home heating and cooling bills for low-income families (Fully eliminated)
$768 million – Refugee resettlement assistance
$819 million – Care and shelter for migrant children
$775 million – Local anti-poverty programs (Fully eliminated)
$5 billion – Public health programs, mental health services, and disease prevention
$5 billion – Medical research (NIH)
$129 million – Healthcare quality and safety research
$356 million – Emergency preparedness and disaster response
$1.3 billion – FEMA community disaster preparedness grants
$707 million – Cybersecurity protection for critical infrastructure
$52 million – Airport and transportation security
$40 million – Protection against chemical and biological weapons threats
$53 million – Funding for homeland security operations
$3.3 billion – Community development block grants for local neighborhoods (Fully eliminated)
$1.3 billion – Affordable housing construction grants (Fully eliminated)
$393 million – Programs to reduce homelessness
$529 million – Housing assistance for people living with HIV/AIDS (Fully eliminated)
$489 million – Housing and services for Native American communities
$50 million – Grants to help communities build more housing (Fully eliminated)
$60 million – Enforcement of fair housing and anti-discrimination laws
$58 million – Homebuyer and renter counseling services (Fully eliminated)
$45 million – Renewable energy development programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.7 billion – Grants for local law enforcement and public safety
$20 million – Civil rights mediation and legal access programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.6 billion – Job training for at-risk youth (Fully eliminated)
$395 million – Jobs program for low-income seniors (Fully eliminated)
$234 million – Worker safety and labor protection programs
$101 million – Enforcement of equal pay and workplace anti-discrimination laws
$46 million – Programs to combat child labor and forced labor abroad
$2 billion – International humanitarian aid
$1.2 billion – Food aid for hungry families abroad (Fully eliminated)
$4.3 billion – Global health and disease prevention programs
$2.7 billion – Funding for the United Nations and international partnerships
$642 million – International economic and treasury programs
$315 million – Democracy and anti-corruption programs abroad
$486 million – Grants for public transit projects
$4.2 billion – Electric vehicle charging infrastructure
$372 million – Airline service for rural and small communities
$145 million – Grants for sustainable and equitable infrastructure
$204 million – Loans and investment for underserved communities
$1.4 billion – IRS taxpayer services and enforcement
$100 million – Air pollution monitoring and reduction programs (Fully eliminated)
$1 billion – EPA grants to states for environmental protection
$2.5 billion – Clean drinking water and wastewater infrastructure funds
$90 million – Grants to reduce diesel pollution (Fully eliminated)
$3.4 billion – NASA space and earth science research
$297 million – NASA technology innovation programs
$1.1 billion – International Space Station operations
$143 million – STEM education programs
$309 million – Small business development and entrepreneurship programs
$170 million – Small Business Administration operations
$158 million – Loans for small businesses



The list circulating reflects proposed or reported budget adjustments and not confirmed enacted federal spending changes. If enacted, the scale of redistribution would represent one of the largest federal spending reallocations in decades.

If this list reflects the actual budget architecture being considered, then what is happening is not routine fiscal adjustment, it is a full-scale reprioritization of federal spending where defense expansion is being paid for through broad reductions across domestic, infrastructure, scientific, and international programs. The scale matters because these are not marginal line items, they span everything from public health and education to transportation, research, and foreign aid, which means the impact would not be isolated but systemic across multiple sectors at once. Whether one agrees with the priorities or not, the structure is clear, defense growth at this level requires offsetting reductions elsewhere unless debt expansion is allowed to absorb it. That is the core constraint driving the tradeoff, not messaging or framing.