diff --git a/app/components/budgets/budget_component.html.erb b/app/components/budgets/budget_component.html.erb
index 5e8038917..635344fee 100644
--- a/app/components/budgets/budget_component.html.erb
+++ b/app/components/budgets/budget_component.html.erb
@@ -3,9 +3,6 @@
     <div class="small-12 column">
       <span class="budget-title"><%= t("budgets.index.title") %></span>
       <h1><%= budget.name %></h1>
-      <div class="description">
-        <%= auto_link_already_sanitized_html wysiwyg(budget.description) %>
-      </div>
 
       <p>
         <%= link_to t("budgets.index.section_header.help"), "#section_help" %>
diff --git a/spec/components/budgets/budget_component_spec.rb b/spec/components/budgets/budget_component_spec.rb
index 96469e22f..799e03e12 100644
--- a/spec/components/budgets/budget_component_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/components/budgets/budget_component_spec.rb
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ describe Budgets::BudgetComponent, type: :component do
       within(".budget-header") do
         expect(page).to have_content("PARTICIPATORY BUDGETS")
         expect(page).to have_content(budget.name)
-        expect(page).to have_content(budget.description)
         expect(page).to have_link("Help with participatory budgets")
       end
     end