Club for Growth Applauds President Trump’s FY2026 Budget for Advancing Pro-Growth, Pro-Taxpayer Priorities

Washington, D.C. – Club for Growth today praised President Donald Trump’s Fiscal Year 2026 skinny budget request as a major step toward restoring fiscal discipline. The President’s budget reduces non-defense discretionary spending by $163 billion — a 22.6% cut — while removing costly and ineffective programs that subsidize ideological policy experiments. Notably, the budget eliminates $15 billion in so-called “Green New Deal” spending from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and cancels $5.7 billion in funding for electric vehicle charger grants.

“The FY26 skinny budget makes clear that President Trump is once again putting taxpayers first,” said Club for Growth President David McIntosh. “This proposal reverses the growth of Washington’s woke, wasteful bureaucracy and shows what conservative governance can look like in practice.”

In addition to its energy and spending reforms, the budget also proposes consolidating 18 K–12 education grants into a streamlined program, furthering the goal of reducing federal micromanagement and restoring local control.

Club for Growth will continue working alongside policymakers and allies in Congress to ensure these priorities are advanced as part of the broader fiscal agenda.