Trump To Push Conservative View Of Government In First Budget

[DonViejo]

Source: Associated Press



By ANDREW TAYLOR Published MARCH 12, 2017, 9:51 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump sends Congress a proposed budget this week that will sharply test Republicans' ability to keep long-standing promises to bolster the military, making politically painful cuts to a lengthy list of popular domestic programs.

The Republican president will ask his adopted political party, which runs Capitol Hill, to cut domestic agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the departments of Education and Housing and Urban Development, along with grants to state and local governments and community development projects. The spending plan, set for release Thursday, would make the Pentagon the big winner with a $54 billion boost to defense spending.

Trump has promised to "do a lot more with less," but his blueprint faces a reality test with Republicans, many of whom are already protesting.

Republicans have groused about some of the preliminary plans, including elimination of the $3 billion community development block grant program that's popular among local GOP officials, a 25 percent cut to the EPA and elimination of 3,000 jobs, and essentially scuttling a $300 million per-year program to clean up the Great Lakes.

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[C_U_L8R]

1. Curious about that Mar-A-Lago line item

and all the other ways he's stuffing his pockets
by paying himself and his family businesses
at a ridiculous markup

[turbinetree]

2. And while the "great Lakes are being invaded by the Asian Carp, Polluted with oil sludge,

this kleptocracy sexual predator can sell bottled water with his name on it, and a Congress, just sits idly by and has really done nothing to defend the Constitution and the oath they took, because party is more important that country.

Just read a piece in the Nation Magazine about a new book called:

Ascent, 1889, 1939 by Volker Ullrich, and the similarities to the sexual predator, this Congress and whats is happening is pretty startling

[benld74]

3. Unsustainable and unrealistic

[dalton99a]

4. Make the 1% great again.