President Trump’s budget proposes eliminating a number of development and international affairs agencies beyond the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) — ending support for a number of programs that fight poverty, promote democracy and expand U.S. presence overseas.

The budget moves to formally eliminate the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the U.S. Institute for Peace, the National Endowment for Democracy, as well as two agencies focused on development work across Latin America and Africa.

The budget would also end all funding given to United Nations Peacekeeping missions, some $1.6 billion, and Food for Peace, another $1.6 billion investment some GOP lawmakers have argued helps U.S. farmers.

The budget includes funds to consolidate USAID into the State Department after the administration announced the move last month, igniting layoffs of staff.

While the cuts are drawn from numerous places in the budget, many were broadly categorized as being part........

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