Biden's First Budget Request to Congress, Prioritizes Domestic Spending.<br />Biden is seeking congressional authorization for a <br />$1.5 trillion spending plan to be implemented in 2022.<br />Overall, the plan increases non-defense <br />spending by 16 percent, .<br />while holding steady on defense spending.<br />The plan seeks a 41 percent increase in <br />education funding, aimed primarily at <br />Title I, high-poverty schools.<br />The Department of Health and Human Services <br />would see a 23 percent increase to its funding, .<br />with a nearly $9 billion increase earmarked <br />for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<br />Public housing initiatives would <br />be increased by 15 percent.<br />and $14 billion would fund <br />environmental protections.<br />Together, America has a chance not simply to go back to the way things were before the COVID-19 pandemic and economic downturn struck, but to begin building a better, stronger, more secure, more inclusive America, Shalanda Young, Acting White House<br />Budget Chief, via 'The Washington Post'
