US Representative Magaziner blasts ‘absolute cruelty’ of Trump budget

US Representative Seth Magaziner decried the “absolute cruelty” of President Trump’s 2026 budget plan, which would slash nondefense domestic spending by $163 billion.

Trump’s plan, unveiled Friday, “guts” the US Agency for International Development, a key funder for a Rhode Island nonprofit that makes food for starving children, and the National Institutes of Health, which funds “the lifesaving research that is done here in Rhode Island and across the country,” Magaziner said on the Rhode Island Report podcast.

“The good news is that historically — under both Democratic and Republican presidents, including the first Trump administration — the president’s budget is ignored by Congress,” Magaziner said. [...] Read full article.