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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More fake news from Politico and its handlers and promoters.
I think his supporters are more interested in jobs, not handouts; dignity, not dependency.
Uh oh - a 3-author article. It’s gotta be extra fake.
get govt out of my wallet and off my back is all I ask
Yep, when ya see 2 or more it’s usually Bravo Sierra.
DEMOCRAT talking points that have been circulating throughout the blogs, on emails, and MSM.
Has much more detail than the Politico spin.
When Ds tell me I’m “voting against my interest”, I tell them that my biggest interest is “the proper role of government”. If we get that right, my wallet, health care, and everything else will be just fine.
Politico’s hatchet job doesn’t belong here. Why spread the garbage?
I think Americans (at least Trump voters) are smart enough to understand that we all will have to endure some pain to get the ship of state righted after so many years of storms and sabotage, Pollutico.
Wait a minute ... I thought Trump and the republicans were only for the rich.
Hey Politico...I’m a Trump voter and you have no bloody idea what my ‘interests’ are! You and your ilk will never understand!
Hey politico, if people have jobs they are far less likely to need handouts.
Democrats have a trick where they claim in lowering of the increase in the budget as a “cut”. This smells like that.
Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that medicaid’s budget is 1 billion. With a proposed increase of 5% which would put the new budget at 1,050,000,000. A proposal is given to cut the increase in half to 2.5%, which means the budget is increasing to 1,025,000,000. Democrats will claim that medicaid is being cut by 25 million. When in reality it’s actually increasing by 25 million.
They pull that out that lie every time someone tries to get spending under control.
Shows the lack of quality of journalists today if it takes three dimwits to write a fake article. No doubt the article was so bad it had to be rewritten by a ghost writer and had their names put on it afterwards.
....Why spread the garbage...
Just as Juan Williams is kept on at Fox so we can daiky see the ignorance, propaganda, and lies spread by Democrats, we need to know what the enemy is up to.
OH NOES, WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITHOUT MY OBAMAPHONE AND EBT AND HUD PUBLIC HOUSING AND OTHER GOVERNMENT HANDOUTS oh wait i’m not getting any of those oh wells i guess trump’s new budget aint hurtin me.
Started reading, looked at where it came from: POLITICO...stopped right there...FAKE NEWS!!!
That’s like complaining about all the sick people in hospitals. We have to dig through this BS to see what the enemies of freedom are doing.
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