THE BUDGET OF BLOOD
Trump’s 2026 Spending Plan Is a Declaration of War—On Science, Justice, and the American Soul
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Welcome back to Trump’s America.
This isn’t a reboot. It’s a recalibration of what power means, who deserves to live, and how a nation can hollow itself out while convincing half its citizens to clap for it.
The 2026 Discretionary Budget Request, the Trump administration’s first full budget of his second term, doesn’t just redistribute money—it reassigns moral weight. It is an explicit, unapologetic declaration that America values missiles over medicine, obedience over education, and militarism over humanity.
Let’s walk through it. Line by line. Cut by cut. Sin by sin.
MEDICINE: SLAUGHTERED
NIH: Cut by $18 billion (~40%)
The National Institutes of Health, the engine behind nearly every major U.S. medical breakthrough, is being gutted.
Cancer research down 43%
Alzheimer’s studies gutted
Rare diseases defunded
Clinical trials shut down midstream
A mother waiting for her child’s treatment is not “woke.”
A family begging for a breakthrough drug isn’t radical.
And yet Trump’s budget treats them like line items to be purged.
CDC: Cut by nearly 50%
After surviving COVID by a hair, we are now undermining our ability to survive the next one.
Outbreak detection: gone
Public health equity: gone
Vaccine access: gone
As James Baldwin said:
“Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
This budget institutionalizes that ignorance.
CIVIL RIGHTS: ERASED
Department of Justice – Civil Rights Division: Cut
Office for Civil Rights (HHS): Cut by 35%
If you’re disabled, LGBTQ+, a voter of color, or a victim of discrimination, this budget is a formal letter that says: You’re on your own.
DEI is gone.
Title IX trans protections? Removed.
Voting rights enforcement? Mute.
This is not a budget cut. It’s legal resegregation with spreadsheets.
THE PLANET: SOLD
EPA: Cut by 54%
We’re slashing the very agency tasked with keeping the air breathable and the water drinkable.
Clean Water Funds: 90% cut
Superfund cleanups: gutted
Environmental Justice: deleted
Climate science: defunded
Meanwhile, fossil fuel protections expand quietly in the background.
As Dwight D. Eisenhower once warned:
“Every gun that is made… signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed.”
Here, it’s a theft from those who thirst and cannot drink.
🧪 IV. SCIENCE: BURNED FOR BELIEF
NASA: Cut 24%
NOAA & USGS: Nearly dismantled
Space missions canceled
Climate tracking ended
Ecosystem data erased
Fire and flood research defunded
Science is treated like subversion. Curiosity like weakness. The future like a cost center.
This is the budget of a government that fears knowledge.
HOUSING & EDUCATION: ABANDONED
HUD: Cut over 40%
Affordable housing: starved
Homelessness programs: cut
Seniors and disabled support: erased
Education Department: Gutted
Mental health services: cut
Pell Grants: slashed
Title I programs: rewritten to favor red states
This isn’t just a war on the poor.
It’s a war on anyone who wasn’t born into privilege.
CULTURE & DEMOCRACY: PURGED
Public broadcasting: eliminated
NEA & NEH: shut down
OSHA & Chemical Safety Board: dissolved
Election protection: defunded
In short: no art, no worker safety, no truth, and no watchdogs.
As Noam Chomsky once said:
“The smart way to keep people passive… is to limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion.”
This budget erases that spectrum.
DEFENSE: FATTER THAN EVER
Department of Defense: +$ 113.3 billion
Total: Over $1 TRILLION
Where it’s going:
A brand-new Golden Dome missile defense system
New stealth bombers (F-47)
Hypersonic weapons
Nuclear expansion
Southern border militarization
Contractor bonuses
Elimination of all “woke” programs from the Pentagon
This isn’t defense, it’s military fetishism at the expense of national survival.
We can’t fund vaccines, but we can fund space-age nukes.
We can’t house veterans, but we can design new weapons to create more of them.
WHAT THIS SAYS ABOUT US
“Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.”
— Joe Biden
Trump just showed us. And millions cheered.
We value:
Guns over doctors
Bombs over books
Borders over breathing
Punishment over policy
Dominance over decency
This is not the budget of a country healing.
It’s the budget of a country at war with its own humanity.
CALL IT WHAT IT IS
This isn’t conservatism.
This isn’t fiscal restraint.
This is a manifesto crafted by lobbyists, applauded by pundits, enforced by cruelty.
And it’s only year one.
If we normalize this, we lose more than just programs; we lose a vision of America that values care, science, truth, and justice.
“Show me your budget,” Biden once said.
Trump did.
Now it’s our turn to show him we’re watching.