Trump Targets 3 Agencies With Ambitious Budget Cuts

The Daily Signal ^ | January 23, 2017 | Thomas Pippen

[LeonardFMason]

More......WINNING!

[Drango]

Make it so!

The problem in cutting these budgets is the GOP.

[bert]

except Sesame street is sold to HBO and not on PBS

[entropy12]

Well...he did say he has been a politicians since descending on the golden elevator 18 months ago.

But I always knew he would do as he said, BECAUSE HE HAS NO HOOKS in his azz from his ultra rich donors. He is unique in not needing ultra rich donors.

[Yaelle]

There are 50 years of reruns for Sesame Street. That oughta do it.

[sneakers]

yes!!!

[wbarmy]

When President Trump first was elected, he opened a suggestion website from the Office of the President-Elect and I jumped on that site and suggested killing the National Endowment for the Arts. I cited an article I wrote for the paper in Tucson concerning a march that was put on by Oprah and a bunch of other millionaires concerning Bush shutting down the NEA. Between that bunch, their daily salary could have funded their own endowment which could have given funding to any art they wanted to. easily.

But they wanted the common taxpayer to fund the NEA, so they could be a part of the arts and have some culture thrust upon them.

[dblshot]

741 million in 2016, and is a small part of a host of budget reforms needed to cut more than a trillion a year from the federal budget
Nearly 3/4 of a trillion $ is a small part of a trillion? No wonder Washington can't balance a budget.

[gaijin]

Eliminate EPA, BATF, Dept. Of Education..!!

[Jim from C-Town]

Eliminate the $500 million for the butchers of Planned Parenthood and we are at over a $1.2 Billion in savings already.

Winning.

[stars & stripes forever]

[With the money sesame street makes from toys and products why are we still giving them government money?]

I wouldn’t be surprised if a big chunk of it pays for ‘special celebrity guests’.

[American in Israel]

That research is done by taking research money from private corporations and I am sure handled like most Government largess, cents on the dollar ever reaches research.

[Yaelle]

Very good point. They must make a mint on the toys and videos.

[entropy12]

Not. Majority of funding comes from government. Most private corporations do not have the money to perform basic science research, such as discovering better super conductors.

[Ann Archy]

MORE....DEEPER CUTS!!! Good start!!

[Perseverando]

I would love to see the U.S. Debt Clock come to a standstill and then start backing up. LOL!

[Logical me]

Excellent move. The entertainment industry must be in a panic.

[Jim from C-Town]

The DOE was established in 1977 by Jimmy Carter. Since then not one kilowatt of electricity, one bbl of oil or one C’ of natural gas has been generated by this department. They have however made it more difficult for private companies to find, secure, retrieve, create and deliver energy to the masses at reasonable cost.

They should be closed and the nuclear oversight should be returned to the renamed Department of War.

[BlueLancer]

"741 million in 2016, and is a small part of a host of budget reforms needed to cut more than a trillion a year from the federal budget."

"Nearly 3/4 of a trillion $ is a small part of a trillion? No wonder Washington can't balance a budget."

I think y'all may have made a small math error. 741 million is 3/4 of a billion not trillion.

I believe that 741 million would be 3/4 of 1/1000 of a trillion.

[American in Israel]

And why do you think most corporations no longer have the money for research? What did the Government do to earn the money that they spent on research?

Perhaps they earned it like highway men at the point of a gun...

I wonder who they robbed?