Posted on 03/22/2017 12:18:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Gov. Matt Bevin of Kentucky was unrestrained in his praise for President Trump: Opening for him at a rally on Monday, Mr. Bevin, a conservative Republican, echoed Mr. Trump’s “America First” slogan and only gently noted the nagging divisions in their party.
“We now have a president and a Congress that are united in party, and yet we still have disagreements among us,” Mr. Bevin said, insisting, “This is healthy and good.”
In private, Mr. Bevin has been blunter about the party’s disagreements. Just days before appearing with Mr. Trump in Louisville, he joined a conference call with the president’s budget director, Mick Mulvaney, to protest a White House proposal to defund the Appalachian Regional Commission, an economic development agency that spans 13 states and steers millions of dollars in federal money to Kentucky.
Mr. Bevin was not alone in his dismay.
As Mr. Trump and his advisers press for bone-deep cuts to the federal budget, Republican governors have rapidly emerged as an influential bloc of opposition. They have complained to the White House about reductions they see as harmful or arbitrary, and they plan to pressure members of Congress from their states to oppose them.
Of acute concern to Republicans are a handful of low-profile programs aimed at job training and economic revitalization, including regional development agencies like the Appalachian commission and the Delta Regional Authority, which serves eight Southern and Midwestern states, seven of them with Republican governors. They are also protective of grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development and a $3.4 billion job-training program funded through the Labor Department.
Mr. Trump’s budget office has proposed to eliminate or deeply slash funding for all of those programs, along with dozens of others.
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NY Times? More BS.
Bevins is rotten. He attacked Kim Davis.
Seems every cow is sacred when it’s one you’re getting some milk from...
Do they want jobs or free money?
Why should taxpayers in Idaho pay for people in Kentucky.
We’re in a mess. Everyone is going to be affected.
This whole thing makes me sick. IT’s like Trump does the heavy lifting himself.
Federalism is just peachy until you have to pay your own bills.
There is no one but Trump who would dare to take these government programs on.
There might be a way to lessen the handouts and not cut the things like food for kids or meals on wheels.. know what and who are being fed.. and how much it is costing... do it in stages instead of all in one whack. There are some programs they can just cut all together, and some that needs to be monitored to see what can be done.
These ‘Republican’ governors want their free stuff. How about real economic growth instead of government-funded handouts?
Well as I tried to tell a snowflake on FB yesterday when you cut the size of govt you actually have to make cuts. Somebody is always going to be unhappy.
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