Donald Trump Budget Slashes Funds for E.P.A. and State Department.

[elleng]

Source: nyt

' President Trump’s budget blueprint for the coming fiscal year would slash the Environmental Protection Agency by 31 percent and cut State Department spending by a similar amount in a brash upending of the government’s priorities, according to congressional staff members familiar with the plan.

The budget outline, to be unveiled on Thursday, is more of a broad political statement than a detailed plan for spending and taxation. But it represents Mr. Trump’s first real effort to translate his bold but vague campaign themes into the minutiae of governance. The president would funnel $54 billion in additional funding into defense programs, beef up immigration enforcement and significantly reduce the nondefense federal work force to “dismantle the administrative state,” in the words of Mr. Trump’s chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon.

Yet for all its headline-grabbing bold strokes — and the White House claims that it will reset the process of Washington policy making — major elements of the plan have already been declared dead on arrival by the Republican leadership in Congress, and much of the fiscal fine print will be filled in by Capitol Hill lawmakers and their aides over the next month.

House appropriations subcommittees began reviewing the plan late Wednesday. Among the cuts: drastic reductions in the 60-year-old State Department Food for Peace Program, which sends food to poor countries hit by war or natural disasters, and the elimination of the Department of Transportation’s Essential Air Service program, which subsidizes flights to rural airports.'>>>

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/us/politics/budget-epa-state-department-cuts.html?

[maxsolomon]

1. decades to undo the damage he'll do before he's impeached.

republicans are horrible people.

[yallerdawg]

2. DOA!

Are we getting sick of winning yet?

[LovingA2andMI]

15. Nope...

Not sick of winning (our side) but I agree DOA this budget is.

[Charles Bukowski]

3. How's that conscience vote working out for ya, brahs?

[Cattledog]

10. +1000

[Blue_Tires]

4. But remember -- There's *NO* ideological difference between HRC and DJT...

[Cattledog]

11. +1000

[Angry Dragon]

5. He says he gave up the president salary ...... he needs some way to fill his pockets

[Blue Idaho]

14. But he didn't - he's being paid monthly

The new gimmick is he will donate it all at the end of the year so he can get a tax write off. So he gets the reduction in gross income - plus a kicker for donating to a charity. So it's actually going to cost Uncle Sam more than if he just kept the money.

Having said that I'm sure he is working on a way to skim any reductions into his Scrooge McDuck bank vault hidden in the White House basement.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Let the Trump Pollution and Cancer Wave Begin!

That 24kt AH has done more harm to our country in 2 months than anyone
in the previous 100 years.

[geek tragedy]

7. the slashing of rural air subsidies ought to play well with his base nt

[renate]

8. screw Food for Peace!

They both suck! BOOOOOOOOOOO!



(I cannot believe the WWJD crowd isn't tearing their hair out. But no, they're loving this guy.)

[SunSeeker]

9. Of course; the EPA and State Dept. are a hindrence to consumating the Exxon-Putin oil deal. nt

[mdbl]

12. i hope he chokes on his own smog before anyone else does

that would be justice.

[greymattermom]

13. Does he support drilling

offshore, near Palm Beach?

[Stonepounder]

16. One of the things cut in his budget is 'Meals on Wheels'

GOP: Don't get sick or old. If you do, die quickly.

So, the GOP wants to cut Medicaid and Meals on Wheels. And defund Planned Parenthood. get rid of auto emission standards. This is not just the GOP dream, it is a full-out frontal assault on the United States. To destroy our Democracy, our institutions, our laws, all of our social programs, and turn us into just another third-world kleptocracy.

We're taught as Christians not to hate, but I guess I'm not a good Christian, because I truly do hate the hypocritical bastards!

[mwooldri]

17. A totally Un-Christian budget.

No feeding the hungry. No sheltering the homeless. No healing the sick. More wealth for the wealthy. Less for the poor. Everyday protections eroded. More money for war.

[Bengus81]

18. PBS funding cut 100%

This POS has to GO!!

"Trump's budget would cut off funding entirely for several agencies, including arts, public broadcasting and development groups, and also proposes steep cuts to agencies like the State Department and Environmental Protection Agency."