Trump's Budget Includes Deepest Cuts To Government In A Generation

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The Trump administration on Tuesday will propose the deepest cuts to government programs in a generation, delivering the opening salvo in a new round of budget battles in Washington.

The proposal, titled “A New Foundation for American Greatness” and set for release at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, sets out a 10-year plan to balance the budget.

It relies on a mix of cuts to anti-poverty programs, optimistic economic forecasting and deep cuts to nondefense discretionary funding to meet its targets. It would not touch Social Security and Medicare, which President Trump promised to leave alone during his campaign.



The budget would dramatically shift spending to the Pentagon from domestic programs.
In 2018, it would shift $54 billion from nondefense discretionary spending to defense by enacting major cuts to the State Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Agriculture and other agencies.

It would eliminate or phase out funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and theNational Endowment for the Arts.

In subsequent years, that shift between defense and nondefense discretionary spending would grow to the point where defense spending would make up two-thirds of discretionary domestic spending, a huge shift from the 50-50 split of today.

By 2027, the Pentagon would continue to benefit from increased annual spending, while nondefense discretionary spending would be $260 billion less than what would be spent without Trump’s budget.

A sizable portion of the cuts to domestic spending would be made to Medicaid.


The budget assumes full passage of the House-passed version of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) to repeal and replace ObamaCare, which cuts $839 billion from Medicaid and pulls funding from Planned Parenthood.



http://thehill.com/policy/finance/334662-trump-seeks-historic-cuts-to-government



I hear a chainsaw! I hope this includes a massive downsizing of federal employees as well
 
How can anyone be in favor of this? Please explain how it will benefit our society.
 
How can anyone be in favor of this? Please explain how it will benefit our society.


Getting rid of unconstitutional programs and department and severely downsizing the size and the role of government. It's pretty simple
 
Getting rid of unconstitutional programs and department and severely downsizing the size and the role of government. It's pretty simple
It actually makes the government much bigger and greatly hurts the most vulnerable in our society. What makes those programs unconstitutional?
 
It actually makes the government much bigger and greatly hurts the most vulnerable in our society. What makes those programs unconstitutional?


How is cutting programs and departments making government bigger? than makes no sense. The Federal Government has emulated power, everything else is not their job
 
It actually makes the government much bigger and greatly hurts the most vulnerable in our society. What makes those programs unconstitutional?

Where do you think this tax money comes from?

The military needs to be cut as well, imo
 
How is cutting programs and departments making government bigger? than makes no sense. The Federal Government has emulated power, everything else is not their job
They're just shifting funding to the military. The military and security state will get even bigger and more powerful. I thought you were worried about "the deep state", and the intelligence agencies growing power. This will also shift money from the most poor and vulnerable to the very wealthy.
 
How is cutting programs and departments making government bigger? than makes no sense. The Federal Government has emulated power, everything else is not their job

I've basically have given up trying to reason with liberals; they would literally prefer to buy Korean goods over American to prevent Trump possibly scoring some political points.
 
It relies on a mix of cuts to anti-poverty programs, optimistic economic forecasting and deep cuts to nondefense

Remember when the Heritage Foundation said that the Bush tax cuts would pay the entire US debt by 2010?

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Close Homer!
But it comes from less than half of the citizens of the USA

Sounds like a great case for creating a consumption tax like the rest of the civilized world.
 
They're just shifting funding to the military. The military and security state will get even bigger and more powerful. I thought you were worried about "the deep state", and the intelligence agencies growing power. This will also shift money from the most poor and vulnerable to the very wealthy.


You literally don't know what you are talking about, this is bernie bot psycho babble. intelligence agencies is not the military. The military is actually directing cited as a power of the federal government. Nowhere does it state the government is required to robin hood the rich to give to the poor. BTW Obama spend more money on poor people in his run and poverty got worse. Spending billions doesn't help poor people, you aren't the savior.


Remember when the Heritage Foundation said that the Bush tax cuts would pay the entire US debt by 2010?

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If it wasn't for Obama, Bush and the RINOs would be the highest spending president in history and i'm not defending his spending so your attempted deflection failed
 
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