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The 2018 United States federal budget is the United States federal budget for fiscal year 2018, which lasts from October 1, 2017 to September 30, 2018. President Donald Trump introduced the budget proposal to the 115th Congress on March 16, 2017.

Budget proposals
The President’s budget blueprint for 2018 proposes spending 1.1 trillion. The President's stated priorities are to increase defense spending by $54 billion.

Increased spending
"The President’s 2018 Budget requests $639 billion for DOD, a $52 billion increase from the 2017 annualized CR level. The total includes $574 billion for the base budget, a 10 percent increase from the 2017 annualized CR level, and $65 billion for Overseas Contingency Operations" which includes the "key investments in maintenance capacity, training systems, and additional F-35 Joint Strike Fighters.

Defense spending will increase by $54 billion. The budgets for immigration enforcement at the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security would see increased spending which "includes additional resources for a wall on the southern border with Mexico, immigration judges, expanded detention capacity, U.S. Attorneys, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Border Patrol." There would be increased "funding to address violent crime and reduces opioid abuse."

Independent agencies to lose funding
The 2018 Budget blueprint proposed "to eliminate funding for other independent agencies, including: the African Development Foundation; the Appalachian Regional Commission; the Chemical Safety Board; the Corporation for National and Community Service; the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; the Delta Regional Authority; the Denali Commission; the Institute of Museum and Library Services; the Inter-American Foundation; the U.S. Trade and Development Agency; the Legal Services Corporation; the National Endowment for the Arts; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation; the Northern Border Regional Commission; the Overseas Private Investment Corporation; the United States Institute of Peace; the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness; and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Reduced spending
"The President’s 2018 Budget requests $5.7 billion for the Environmental Protection Agency, a savings of $2.6 billion, or 31 percent, from the 2017 annualized CR level." It eliminates EPA programs such as the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Energy Star; Targeted Airshed Grants; the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program; and infrastructure assistance to Alaska Native Villages and the Mexico Border.

The President’s 2018 Budget would decrease spending by $17.9 billion for the United States Department of Agriculture, which represents a 21 percent decrease from the 2017 budget.

The President’s 2018 Budget "requests $7.8 billion for the United States Department of Commerce, a $1.5 billion or 16 percent decrease from the 2017 annualized CR level."

"The President’s 2018 Budget provides $59 billion in discretionary funding for the United States Department of Education, a $9 billion or 13 percent reduction below the 2017 annualized CR level."