Obama puts his last draft budget before

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Obama puts his last draft budget before

One kind of political Vemächtnis? US President Barack Obama has the last budget proposal of his term of office will be presented. Adopted, he will probably not.

The draft budget provides for the in October beginning of financial year 2017 an increase in government spending by almost five percent to a total of 4,15 trillion US dollars. As the budget from the U.S. Congress and President Barack Obama in January 2017 from the office is eliminated, the template as well as no prospect of success. In both parliamentary chambers have the opposition Republicans to the majority.

“The Budget we now present reflects my priorities and the priorities reflected that, in my opinion, help, security, and prosperity in America for years to advance,” said of the Democrats belonging to the President at the presentation of the Etatentwurfs in Washington. “This budget makes sure that our economy is for everyone works, not just for those at the top.”

More money for infrastructure and IT security

In addition to multi-billion dollar expenditure for the modernization of the US infrastructure will Obama also reinforced in education and environmentally friendly technologies. The funds for the fight against the IS Terrromiliz by 50 percent to 7.5 billion dollars to be increased. For cyber-security should be more than 19 billion dollars to be provided, an increase of 35 percent. The “Cybersecurity National Action Plan (CNAP) includes state activities, but also partnerships with well-known IT and Internet company such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft, as well as with financial services such as MasterCard, Visa and PayPal.

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With the CNAP is the response of the Obama Administration, even to the criticism of an outdated IT infrastructure of the U.S. Federal government. 3.1 billion dollars should be alone for the modernization of equipment and the establishment of secure, Cloud-services of the state to be used. US authorities were repeatedly the victims of Online attacks have become, behind which, according to information from the security apparatus of the hackers from China and Russia stuck.

Criticism of the Republicans

The Republicans rejected the proposals of the President immediately. The Chairman of the house of representatives, Paul Ryan, criticized the expansion of the state “at the expense of hard working Americans”. Senate majority leader Daschle the Republicans in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, said Obama’s budget stand for “new taxes, new spending and more debt”. The budget Committee of the Senate with the draft budget not addressed. This is a strong indication that the domestic politics in the election year of 2016 in the largest economy in the world, little to nothing will move forward.

wl/jj (dpa, afp, rtr)