Posted on 05/23/2017 6:50:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Donald Trump, whose populist message and promises to help American workers propelled him to the White House, is set to issue a budget proposal on Tuesday that instead takes aim at the social safety net on which many of his supporters rely.
Rather than breaking with Washington precedent, Trump’s spending blueprint follows established conservative orthodoxy, cutting taxes on the wealthy, boosting defense spending and taking a hatchet to programs for the poor and disabled – potentially hurting many of the rural and low-income Americans that voted him into office.
The budget proposal underscores the wide gulf between campaigning and governing, even for a president who promised to rewrite the presidential rule book.
The president’s budget plan calls for more than $1 trillion in cuts to a wide range of social programs with millions of beneficiaries, from farm subsidies to federal student aid. That includes a $600 billion cut to Medicaid over 10 years, despite Trump’s repeated promises on the campaign trail not to cut the program. The budget also takes an ax to the federal food stamp program and Social Security Disability Insurance.
Trump also proposes some of the deepest cuts to agriculture subsidies since Ronald Reagan, squeezing out nearly $50 billion over 10 years.
Trump’s budget would drastically cut domestic programs controlled by Congress, slashing $1.7 trillion over 10 years. At the end of the decade, the U.S. would spend nearly twice as much on defense as on other domestic programs. Domestic discretionary spending would be capped at $429 billion per year, below 2004 levels, while military spending soars to $722 billion.
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The trade-off is clear...jobs instead of welfare.
Bingo!
Aw, Geez, not this “what’s the matter with Kansas?” sh*t again!!
Politico - really?
Any solution that actually works will hit ALL voters extremely hard. It’s why none will ever be seriously proposed, much less implemented.
We’re riding this thing to the very bottom, regardless of who the president is.
I’m in full agreement with you. Why spread garbage indeed?
Amen, brother.
I think it is Bernie/Hillary voters who were on the grift, er, "social safety net." Trump voters just got tired of having to pay for it.
Started reading it and may finish but got to the budget staff size of over 500 and quit. Too many people with not enough to do is what makes a garment monster that takes everything away from us.
Ok, then where’s the love from the dems?
If it takes three journalists to write this garbage, then I wonder how many it takes to change a light bulb?
Too many journalist are just plain intellectually lazy and stupid.
“More fake news from Politico and its handlers and promoters.”
Thanks!
Politico’s hatchet job doesn’t belong here. Why spread the garbage?
It is his job, 24/7!
“The budget also takes an ax to the federal food stamp program and Social Security Disability Insurance. “
Right, and everyone knows how heavily dependent all Trump voters are on those programs./s
It’s just Politico = Fake News
How does Politico know who “his own voters” are?
Only exceeded by The Hill and it’s Fake News that the Democrats are going to have a “wave election” in 2018.
People are now so accustomed to statism they assume budget cuts are bad - these people want jobs not to take money from people in Wisconsin and give to people in Arizona. Selena Zito seems the only writer that understands this.
Well said.
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