Trump calls on Congress to pull back $15 billion in spending, including on Children's Health...

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post



Trump calls on Congress to pull back $15 billion in spending, including on Children’s Health Insurance Program.

By Damian Paletta and Erica Werner May 7 at 2:38 PM

President Trump is sending a plan to Congress that calls for stripping more than $15 billion in previously approved spending, with the hope that it will temper conservative angst over ballooning budget deficits.

Almost half of the proposed cuts would come from two accounts within the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) that White House officials said expired last year or are not expected to be drawn upon. An additional $800 million in cuts would come from money created by the Affordable Care Act in 2010 to test innovative payment and service delivery models.

Those are just a handful of the more than 30 programs the White House is proposing to Congress for “rescission,” a process of culling back money that was previously authorized. Once the White House sends the request to Congress, lawmakers have 45 days to vote on the plan or a scaled-back version of it through a simple majority vote.

If approved by Congress, the reductions would represent less than 0.4 percent of total government spending this year.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-calls-on-congress-to-pull-back-15-billion-in-spending-including-on-childrens-health-insurance-program/2018/05/07/9427de18-5216-11e8-a551-5b648abe29ef_story.html

[iluvtennis]

1. Uncaring piece of shit Trump. What about reducing the 35% x cut to corps. No, let's pick on kids

[rickford66]

2. Maybe charge more for crutches, canes and wheelchairs.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. Whew, that was close. We almost ran out of jet fuel for Marine One. NT

[Dave Starsky]

19. Marine One has reduced fuel costs now.

Since the blades don't even start up until the Royal Combover is on board. It always used to be that the blades were turning and ready to go when the President arrived, so that they they wouldn't waste any of his precious time. But they don't do that anymore.

[erronis]

4. It would be unpatriotic to make the DoD or black-ops budgets be constrained

After all, they do such good and effective work!

But who would know. "WE" can't know.

The DoD auditors haven't been able to complete a full audit in 10+ years.

There are an awful lot of very expensive homes around D.C. that were bought with taxpayer money that hasn't been accounted for. And I bet a lot of those real-estate transactions haven't been reported. If the IRS hadn't been eviscerated by the republicons it might actually be able to haul some of those thieves into tax court.

[sandensea]

5. I take it security costs for Melania and the little cretin are to be increased.

That alone would pay for health care for hundreds of infirm children.

[Jedi Guy]

18. Why the attack on Barron?

His only "crime" is that he lost the genetic lottery and is related to IQ45. That's not his fault.

Don't behave like the RW with attacks on kids because of who their parents are. It was wrong when they attacked Chelsea, Sasha, and Malia. That doesn't make it okay for you or anyone else to attack Barron.

[sandensea]

22. Nothing against him at all. He's a sweet kid.

But his money launderer father should be paying for any of his family's Rump Tower security costs - not the U.S. Taxpayer. And definitely not at the expense of CHIP and other vital programs.

To say nothing of local taxpayers in New York; I understand it's costing them a fortune.

[Jedi Guy]

24. Then why call him a "little cretin?"

I agree with everything else you said, by the way. I just don't understand why you called him that, and thought it was inappropriate given past attacks on the children of Democratic figures.

[MFM008]

26. You know

Some of us just dont care about anything about that family.
Including political correctness.

[Jedi Guy]

28. Uh huh.

For one thing, it's Trump and his kooky followers who revel in not being politically correct. If you want to behave like they do, go nuts.

For another, it has absolutely nothing to do with political correctness. Attacking innocent children is wrong, no matter who their parents are.

If you behave like they do, what separates you from them, apart from your politics?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

29. Jedi Guy is right. NT

[progressoid]

6. Winning!!

[SansACause]

7. That's not how it works.

You don't take money from authorization. You take it from appropriation.

The budget deficit is projected to be nearly $1 trillion. None of these cuts get anywhere close to that. To find that kind of money, you'd have to tax the wealthy.

--Randy

[sakabatou]

8. Just how many people must Trump screw over

until Republicans wake up?

[John Fante]

12. GOP voters will rationalize this by imagining that only children of color

will be affected. Theirs is the ideology of psychopaths.

[atreides1]

16. Of course they will!!!

Those Trumpers receiving Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), will blame Obama when their children start to suffer for their own stupidity!!!

And this may sound cruel, but they won't get one bit of sympathy from me...because if they hate their own children, then why should I care!!!

[jmowreader]

17. Twenty-four, but they have to be the RIGHT 24

22 of them are Republican Congressman, the other two Republican Senators.

It is very simple, ladies and gentlemen: if Trump manages to flip Congress to the Democrats, the Republicans will get rid of him.

[Jedi Guy]

20. I doubt they'll drop him if Congress goes blue.

Historically the President's party doesn't do well in the midterms. They'll only drop him if it's proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that he broke the law, with zero chance for him to sleaze his way out of it.

Hell, maybe not even then. I'm reminded of that old saying, "Yeah he's an asshole, but he's our asshole." There's also the fact that his kooky base is all about sticking it to those darned liberals, even if by doing so they damage their own interests.

[kairos12]

9. Drumpt's rep continues. Stiff poor people and not pay bills.

[PatrickforO]

10. That was kind of a crappy article, because where's the actual list?

The itemized list of programs with the proposed cuts shown for each one.

That, of course, is the first thing I wanted to see, but nope - no table. Just a bunch of prose.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Trump thinks military parades more important than Children's Health. . . . nt

[Gothmog]

13. This proposal has no chance of passing

[Freethinker65]

14. BE BEST

[BigmanPigman]

15. Bill Maher was just talking about this.

The morally superior GOP wants to stop abortions but once the birth happens all they want to do is harm the new person and its terrible, horrible parents ( ).

[Sugar Smack]

21. Is this to cover the cost of his military parade?

Probably.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

23. Mid term election and he proposes this shit?

That ought to be fun for Congress people to explain to their constituents back home that they want to cut back child healthcare.

[n2doc]

25. Trillion dollar deficits

This is a rounding error on that. Tax cuts and the war machine are the real deficit drivers.

[Martin Eden]

27. More for billionaires, less for sick children

Republican family values.

[lagomorph777]

30. Why is Turd so eager to fire up the Democratic base?

He really is senile.