GOP trashes Trump’s plan to end dozens of government programs

McClatcy DC Bureau ^ | July 21, 2017 | WILLIAM DOUGLAS AND ANSHU SIRIPURAPU

[be-baw]

President Donald Trump’s plan to eliminate dozens of federal agencies and programs has collapsed, as a conservative Republican Congress refuses to go along.

Among the programs spared are agencies promoting rural business development and the arts, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Community Development Block Grants and the National Wildlife Refuge Fund. Those and many others are getting money in bills approved by the GOP-run House appropriations committee. The House plans to vote on spending bills throughout next week, and the Senate is expected to consider spending plans shortly.

Trump unveiled his $4.1 trillion budget plan in March, pledging to “reduce the federal government to redefine its proper role and promote efficiency.”

[be-baw]

Oink oink

[IronJack]

Now we know who our true enemies are.

[PGR88]

The Republicans are simply the accountants for the nanny-state.

[eartick]

He has veto power

[BlueStateRightist]

Let’s face it, a GOP-controlled congress will not solve our spending problem. Never. Only convention of the states or complete economic collapse will rectify our unbalanced budgets and wasteful, extra-constitutional expenditures.

[eartick]

dang coffee....he does not have to sign it.....

[LostPassword]

as a conservative Republican Congress refuses to go along

[Raycpa]

We have a conservative rebulican Congress?

[rlmorel]

"...The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been on the list of programs many conservatives and Republicans have wanted to defund since Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., was House Speaker in the 1990s. Trump wants it off the federal books, too, but House appropriators instead included $445 million for the agency.

The National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities have also been favorite conservative targets, and got a death sentence in Trump’s budget plan. That didn’t stop the House Appropriations Committee from approving $145 million for each endowment last week with plenty of Republican help..."

GRRRRRRRR!!!!!

[knighthawk]

Trump flushed out all the Rino’s and Democratic plants!

[pollywog]

.he does not have to sign it.....

We need to USE the WHITE HOUSE website and flood him with encouragement to STAND againt THE GOP establishment!!!! VETO VETO VETO!!!!!!

[Bobalu]

Veto and force them to override with dem votes and show their true colors.

[ObozoMustGo2012]

Pres. Trump should tweet or go on camera and state that the establishment R’s want to take $590 MILLION away from job-promoting programs and instead dump it into programs that <2% of the population actually participate in....

[Jim Noble]

JFK’s last submitted Federal Budget was $99 billion, which was sufficient to have a great and powerful nation, AND to go to the moon.

That would be $780 billion in 2017 dollars. They’re doing something wrong.

[madprof98]

The silver lining is that we won’t have to read front-page accounts of performance artists who will die unless they get an NEA grant to fund their latest obscene spectacle.

[henkster]

The Republican Congress is conservative?

[vmivol00]

Thanks for the perspective. Trump should proposed the JFK budget and the let the Dems squirm.

[hinckley buzzard]

And, the defense budget was fully 50% of that 99 billion dollars. That should tell us what has gone wrong, now that defense is in single digits.

[Flick Lives]

President Donald Trump’s plan to eliminate dozens of federal agencies and programs has collapsed, as a conservative Republican Congress refuses to go along.

Conservative Republican Congress? That's a flat lie.

[ronnie raygun]

We got our guy in and now we need to help him get those who are against him out! The GOP are obstructionists just like the rats we need to clean house of both