Posted on 01/12/2016 2:30:07 AM PST by Libloather
MANCHESTER, N. H. - Republican Donald Trump on Monday said he would slash funding for the federal education department and Environmental Protection Agency if elected president.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal and New Hampshire's WMUR at a local diner here, the celebrity businessman said he would do "tremendous cutting" of the federal government if elected. Education policy, he said, should be returned to the states, and he said he would end the Common Core education standards, which conservatives view as federal overreach.
"Education should be local and locally managed," said Mr. Trump, who also criticized the administration's environmental policies. "The Environmental Protection Agency is the laughing stock of the world."
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I’d lower that limit to 1776. Then compare vs. Constitution and ZERO-out all not found in A1S8.
All properties that are not forts, postal roads revert back to the State from which they reside...
The States are already ‘empowered’, so even less for Congress to worry with.
THEN we can start figuring what the People owe in taxes for the TRUE cost of govt.
...and any Congress critter that floats the idea of abdicating their responsibilities should be immediately removed from office (no bennies, which there shouldn’t be to begin, do not pass GO, do NOT collect $200).
So, next funding cycle this agency has 30% unused money: do you think Congress is going to re-vote full funding again? I don't.
This is one of the only identifiably conservative (as opposed to populist) positions I’ve seen from Trump.
Interesting.
Another reason he is gaining popularity - of course the ED dept and EPA should be defunded.
HUD needs to be dissolved. The Inspector General announced late in 2015 that the records there ‘were in a shambles’. He stated that he could NOT account for over $210 BILLION of a budget of about $460 BILLION.
I am a life long bookkeeper-—I never had client books out of balance or didn’t have receipts for every single penny spent.
This is TAXPAYER money, people, and the Inspector General for HUD said he got no help from those employees.
Every morning, he wakes up and sees this:
I trust Trump to do it right.
He will evaluate what those agencies are doing and quickly size up if they are adding value or not, or if it belongs at a more local level.
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