Trump Mulls Cutting Billions From Public Housing to Fund Larger Military

[Cattledog]

...the Trump administration is considering cutting $6 billion from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to help fund a $54 billion increase in America’s defense budget, according to documents obtained by the Washington Post.

The president’s budget proposal would slash $1.3 billion from the public-housing capital budget, and $600 million from its operating fund. Funding for capital repairs in public housing is already so insufficient, tens of billions of dollars in backlogged repairs plague the nation’s facilities, according to a 2010 HUD report.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/trump-mulls-cutting-usd6-billion-from-hud-to-fund-defense.html?mid=facebook_nymag

[Cha]

1. And, there it is.. nothing for little sleepy ben to do

[shenmue]

9. Zzzzzzzz

[Cha]

2. KICK.. this is a BFD.. he fucking better not.

[BSdetect]

3. He might think he can draft homeless people into his expanded army?

[logosoco]

4. If he and the repubs have their way, there is not going to be much to defend. nt

[HughBeaumont]

5. The last time someone did this, a widespread homeless problem began in America.

Great to know that the KGBOP is still clinging to Dead Reagan "solutions" for complex and long-standing problems.

[Cha]

6. K

[KittyWampus]

7. Congress controls the purse strings.

[Cha]

8. This is worrisome.