Posted on 03/17/2017 8:59:51 AM PDT by Olog-hai
President Donald Trump today released his America First budget blueprint which calls for slashing non-defense-related discretionary spending by $54 billion and completely eliminating funding for many independent agencies and federal programs.
Among those that will be completely defunded are the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
Our Budget Blueprint insists on $54 billion in reductions to non-Defense programs, Trump said in the introduction to his budget blueprint. We are going to do more with less, and make the government lean and accountable to the people.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
YES!!!!!!!! Go Trump!
Remember all those years of Democrats saying Republican President budgets were dead on arrival and then filling with pork and forcing the President to sign? Well Trump has cut back so far that even with some pork refill, he will have still made government smaller and more responsible!
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Absolutely 100% supportive of the cuts, and my only complaint is that they are not deep enough or wide enough. Some of these ridiculous and wasteful and tyrannical agencies should be SHUT DOW NOW.
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