The President of the USA, Joe Biden, presented this Friday an initial proposal for budget that gives priority to social spending in front of defending, with notable investments in the fight against climate crisis and in the Health Y education public, in addition to the racial and economic inequality.
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Biden asked the US Congress for $ 1.52 trillion Within its non-mandatory government spending proposal for fiscal year 2022, an advance of the full annual budget request that the White House will unveil in the coming weeks.
After four years of attempts by the former president Donald Trump after cutting social spending, his successor wants to boost discretionary items in this area so that they account for 3.3 percent of GDP, equivalent to “the historical average of the last 30 years,” the White House said.
The funds that would not go to the Pentagon, a total of 769,000 million, include an increase of almost 41 percent in the budget of the Department of Education, another of almost 28 percent in Commerce, and more than 23 percent for Health.
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(…) The country would make its first contribution in four years to the UN Green Climate Fund
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In addition, they would be invested $ 14 billion more than in the current fiscal year in the fight against climate crisisinside and outside the U.S.
If Congress approves Biden’s request, the country would make its first contribution in four years to the UN Green Climate Fund, with 1.2 billion dollars to “help developing countries reduce their emissions” and meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, according to the White House.
Would also go $ 485 million to other multilateral initiatives, including 100 million pnow programs of climate adaptation Y 691 million more for him State Department Help Other Countries Reduce Their Emissions and increase its production of clean energy.
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Within the US, he proposed spend 2 billion to create jobs in clean energy projects, 1.7 billion to improve the energy efficiency of buildings and 1.4 billion more to help communities historically damaged by pollution, mostly afroestadounidenses, latinos e natives.
Regarding health, the request would provide $ 8.7 billion to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), who have led the response against the covid-19 pandemic.
This is the largest increase to the CDC budget in nearly two decades, with 1.6 billion more than this year, and will be used to improve that agency’s ability to send experts abroad to detect and prevent global biological threats, in addition to training epidemiologists.
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51 billion would also go to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including 6.5 million to create a new agency under the acronym ARPA-H, which will focus on research on cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s.
The 40.8 percent increase to the Department of Education budget, to $ 1 trillion, includes 36,600 million to give scholarships to students from low-income families and 3,000 million more in Pell scholarships in order to University students, including undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children, known as ‘dreamers’.
In addition, the plan proposes spending $ 2.1 billion on contain gun killings, 1 billion to combat sexist violence and another 1 billion to reinforce security on the border with Mexico, with the nuance that these funds will not be dedicated to continuing to build the ‘Wallwhat started Trump.
The Administration’s plan kicks off a months-long process during which Congress is likely to significantly shift priorities, given stiff Republican opposition to many of the proposals.
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*Con AFP y BLOOMBERG
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