Trump’s Coming Budget Request to Kick Off Congress’ Funding Work

The lawmakers in charge of the nation’s purse strings are eagerly waiting for President Donald Trump’s budget request to jump-start their next government funding bills.

Trump’s fiscal 2027 budget request, expected on April 3, will give lawmakers a sense of the administration’s funding priorities as they start to write full-year spending bills.

The president’s budget kicks off the annual appropriations process and lawmakers use it as a baseline to write funding bills, though they usually don’t adhere to the request. Trump’s 2026 budget included drastic spending cuts that Congress mostly rejected.

The administration’s request for the Pentagon will ...