46 programs Trump wants to eliminate, according to his proposed budget

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Presidential budget proposals are usually seen as symbolic. But President Donald Trump is running the Republican Party and asserting presidential power in ways unseen in American history. At the least, the outline he has presented to Congress this year will influence lawmakers’ decisions.

From the White House and Republican perspective, his plan to eliminate some programs underscores that he is pushing for action that others have avoided. Looking at his initial or “skinny” budget proposal, along with an “appendix” the White House released last Friday, Trump’s budget would eliminate at least 46 programs and agencies.

Many of these programs have vocal advocates who say that without them, critical oversight, protections and functions will be gone.

At the same time, as you’ll see, this target list is composed mostly of programs with relatively small budgets. Eliminating them saves a sum barely worth mentioning relative to the federal deficit. Not the scale many fiscal conservatives hope to see.

For example, the largest proposed elimination is the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP, a national program that helps people afford heating and energy bills. Its roughly $4 billion in funding is just .06 percent of the discretionary budget Congress controls.

What programs does Trump want to cut?

Here are programs and agencies Trump proposes to eliminate in his budget.

For perspective, we are including the estimated funding amount for the current year, fiscal year 2025, when the budget provides them.

Economic and jobs programs

• Economic development assistance programs. This provides some $2 billion in grants to economically struggling communities.
• Economic Development Administration. $113 million.
• Job Corps. More than $1.7 billion.
• AmeriCorps (officially known as the Corporation for National and Community Service). $976 million.
• Minority Business Development Agency. $68 million.
• Community Service Employment for Older Americans. $405 million.
• The Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau.
• NASA’s Office of Science, Tech, Engineering and Math Engagement. $143 million.

Oversight

• Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. This office is a watchdog, tasked with making sure there is no discrimination in contracting. $111 million.
• Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board. $14 million.

Health and living programs

• Administration for Community Living, which supports older and disabled Americans’ ability to live independently. More than $2.4 billion.
• U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness. $4 million.
• The Department of Health and Human Services’ Prevention and Public Health Fund. $1.4 billion in funds planned for FY 2026.
• Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund. $338 million.

Assistance programs

• LIHEAP, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program. More than $4.1 billion.
• Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve. $7 million.
• Refugees and asylees. Cash, medical and other social service assistance is eliminated. No summary figure given.

Legal and labor programs

• The Department of Justice’s Community Relations Service. This division works to mediate and confront community tension. $24 million.
• Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, which mediates labor disputes. $54 million.
• Legal Services Corporation, one of the nation’s largest funders of civil legal aid. $560 million.

Media and communications

• U.S. Agency for Global Media, which includes Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe. $857 million.
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private nonprofit that distributes federal funding to public media organizations, including to NPR and PBS. This would affect local stations and programs like the PBS News Hour. $595 million.

Democracy and international development

• Inter-American Foundation, funding community development in Latin America and the Caribbean. $47 million.
• Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs (former part of USAID). $741 million.
• Woodrow Wilson Center. $15 million.
• U.S. Institute of Peace. $55 million.
• African Development Foundation. $45 million.

Arts

• National Endowment for the Arts. $207 million.
• National Endowment for the Humanities. $207 million.
• Institute of Museum and Library Services, a small federal agency that supports museums and libraries around the country. $295 million.

Regional authorities

• Delta Regional Authority. $41 million.
• Denali Commission in Alaska. $38 million.
• D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant program. $40 million.
• Northern Border Regional Commission. $46 million.
• Great Lakes Authority. $5 million.
• Southeast Crescent Regional Commission. $20 million.
• Southwest Border Regional Commission. $5 million.

Native American programs

• Indian Land Consolidation Program. $4 million.
• Indian Guaranteed Loan Program. No new loans to be guaranteed.
• Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development, a higher education institute in Santa Fe. $12 million.
• Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation. $2 million.

Wildlife

• State and Tribal Wildlife Grants program. $72 million.
• Multinational Species Conservation Fund. $21 million.
• Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Fund. $5 million.
• Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund. $23 million in discretionary funding.
• Marine Mammal Commission. $5 million.

What happens next?

Congress must pass the next funding bill by Sept. 30 to avoid a government shutdown.

Appropriators in both the House and Senate will go over this list, and make their own version of what stays and what goes.

It is not typical for Congress to eliminate many agencies or programs, but we are not in a typical year. Fiscal conservatives and Trump are pushing to show that they are slimming the government.