President Trump used his proposed budget for next year to continue his aggressive targeting of federal programs aimed at promoting diversity, helping Black and Hispanic students, and boosting minority-owned businesses, all initiatives the president derides as “woke.”
In section after section of his budget request, Mr. Trump sought to cut programs he connects to diversity, equity and inclusion programs, which he argues discriminate against white people. The proposed cuts, which are tiny compared with the $1.5 trillion budget he suggested for the military, reflect the president’s focus on stamping out federal initiatives created to support disadvantaged groups.
“President Trump is committed to eliminating radical gender and racial ideologies that poison the minds of Americans,” a budget document from the White House said.
Civil rights organizations, such as the N.A.A.C.P., have accused the president of carrying out an assault on civil rights and trying to roll back decades of progress for people of color.
It remains to be seen how many of Mr. Trump’s proposed cuts will be enacted. Congress has the constitutional power of the purse, and presidential budgets rarely get approved as requested.
This time around, as he tries to raise spending for the military, Mr. Trump is seeking a 10 percent cut to nondefense spending.
Among the cuts proposed by Mr. Trump is the elimination of the Commerce Department’s Minority Business Development Agency, which would save $47 million. The administration says the cut is necessary because — as its name indicates — the agency supported only businesses owned by racial minorities.
The administration also targeted the International Trade Administration for a $150 million cut, reducing funds spent on an initiative to help “traditionally underserved exporters” and a fellowship program that aimed to help immigrants, ex-convicts and those with limited English proficiency.
Mr. Trump’s budget plan would also expand his administration’s efforts to unravel traditional support for federal civil rights enforcement, including cutting all funding for Equity Assistance Centers at the Education Department. Initially established as Desegregation Assistance Centers in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, these centers provide training to schools to help address bullying and prejudice.
The White House said the change would end “weaponized grant programming” by eliminating centers that provide “training materials for educators on white supremacy,” among other things. The cut would save about $7 million.
The president also wants to end grants for teacher training, known as Teacher Quality Partnerships, that the White House has argued promote “instruction on white privilege and white supremacy.”
The budget proposal would also cut $136 million in federal grants that support priorities set each year by the Education Department for an array of projects, such as advancing artificial intelligence projects in schools. The Trump White House has criticized some past grants in the program, known as the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, that have supported L.G.B.T.Q. students. According to the Stanford Graduate School of Education, about 70 percent of the federal program’s projects continue after government support ends, which the university said showed the program’s effectiveness.
Since retaking the White House, Mr. Trump and his budget director, Russell T. Vought, have been on a mission to stamp out diversity programs from any part of the federal government, as well as from institutions that receive federal funding.
Within hours of his inauguration last year, Mr. Trump moved to terminate diversity, equity and inclusion offices, positions and programs in the federal government; repealed prior executive orders intended to ensure equal opportunity in the workplace; and signed an order urging the private sector to end “Illegal D.E.I. Discrimination and Preferences.”
The president has accused the Smithsonian Institution of focusing too much on “how bad slavery was.” He has ordered Confederate statues honoring those who fought to preserve slavery to be restored and celebrated. Government websites have been scrubbed of hundreds of so-called woke words, including “injustice” and “oppression.” Federal agencies eliminated or obscured the contributions of Black heroes.
This year, as they have scoured the federal budget, Trump officials have found additional programs to try to eliminate.
That includes cutting $50 million from a program called Pathways to Removing Obstacles Housing, which awarded competitive grants to states and local governments to reduce barriers to affordable housing. The Trump administration accused the grant program of funding “divisive D.E.I. agendas.”
The administration also said it would cut $145 million from transportation grants that it said were awarded using “diversity, equity and inclusion” criteria.
Mr. Trump also proposed a cut of $395 million to the Senior Community Service Employment Program, which aimed to help seniors in need, but the administration described as an earmark for leftist organizations that promote diversity.
Tony Romm contributed reporting.
Luke Broadwater covers the White House for The Times.
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