Posted on 02/20/2017 7:53:23 AM PST by GonzoII
Paul Winfree, former director of Heritage's Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, is serving as the White House’s director of budget policy and deputy director of the Domestic Policy Council. Winfree was appointed to the high-profile job during President Donald Trump's transition.
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"For a preview of what could come, it might be worth checking out this Heritage budget blueprint from February 2016 of which Winfree was the lead author. (Topline takeaways: It eliminates several Department of Energy offices and programs, not related to nuclear weapons, and proposes big cuts at Interior, EPA, Labor, Transportation and State by wholesale elimination of programs.)"
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Most presidential budgets arrive at Congress DOA.
Congress loves them their send-it-home pork and under-the-table donations, and only a small percentage of the House and Senate actually care about controlling spending.
He needs to cut a good four times as much as he proposed in his “blueprint”. Now is the time to do it too, in tandem with the big tax cuts Trump promised in his campaign.
Congress is tripping over itself trying to find ways to “pay” for such tax cuts with new taxes. Completely useless. They need to start with the big tax cuts — and then make the drastic, quick and deep cuts to the government to “pay” for them.
And now is the time to do it so both individuals and the economy can see the benefits that come from the cuts that such deep spending cuts make feasible. Waiting even six months or severing the tax and budget cuts from each other would be too late and too incremental. They need to get them all rolling now while Trump is likely to get the most he can from Congress and in time for the positive impacts to reach voters before the midterms—and a risk of losing the House and/or Senate.
Spot on comments. I agree completely.
Oh Happy Day!
But what really needs to be cut - entitlements is political suicide!
I want President Trump to brag about how much he is increasing spending: which categories are going up 5% from Bill Clinton’s last ($1.8T) budget, and which are going up a full 10% from Clinton’s last budget.
Liberal heads would explode at the “lies” that those are increases, along with the idea of genuine cuts in FedGov spending.
They weren’t what Trump campaigned on, they would soak up massive political capital, and there is actually plenty of room to cover what the proposed cuts, adding in the growth resulting from the cuts, would need by cutting deeply elsewhere.
Serious entitlements reform that simply kicks off the bogus new folks added to the rolls by the Obama admin would also save a lot, but that could be justified and effected further down the line.
son of Oprah?
Not tired of all the winning, enjoying the continued grinnning.
One more for your list, Laz.
They’d better plan on getting rid of baseline budgeting....
Nice work Heritage Foundation.
Didn’t he used to work for Goldman?
Just another reason Heritage gets a check from me every year.
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