Clinton would not have been able to put her budget thru until FY 2018 (Sep 2017) either. You cannot compare Clinton or Trump (ok maybe Clinton) to Zero’s FY 2017 (Sep 2016) budget, which is getting additional funding.
Here’s the 2018 proposed budget blueprint (with my own fast and furious notes) that we will get started on in a month or two whipping our congresscritters to get this done. It’s not everything but it’s a running start:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/omb/budget/fy2018/2018_blueprint.pdf
1. Agri - 21% cut - supports WIC, reduce Fed land acq. fully fund wildfire supp. Reduce/refocus/streamline staff
2. Commerce - 16% cut - consolidates replicating offices; eliminates EDA, MBDA, MEP, NOAA grants; supports NWS,NTIA
3. DoD -10% bonus - repeals defense sequestration
4. DoEd - 13% cut - supports charter schools/IDEA programs; consolidates/eliminates underperforming programs
5. DoEnergy - 5% cut - supports Yucca Mtn; grid security
6. HHS - 18% cut - target welfare fraud; eliminate duplicative programs and grants
7. DHS - 7% bonus - THE WALL - infrastructure security, fair NFIP funding, FEMA funding from states; refocus TSA to passenger safety (lots of stuff here)
8. HUD - 13% cut - nonperforming loan programs cut
9. DoIn - 12% cut - supports Park Svc infrastructure and USGS Landsat; limits land acquisition; end duplicative programs
10. DoJ - 4% cut - supports FBI and local police, target crime/drug traffickers; faster firearm background checks; more deportation hires
11. DoLabor - 21% cut - focus on Fair Trade agreements; elimination of nonperforming grant programs or shift cost to states
12. DoState - 28% cut - Eliminates Global Climate Change Initiative, program payments, funding to the UN; refocuses humanitarian assistance; shifts military aid grants to loans; reduce World Bank funding; supports Israel, and supports vaccine/hiv/aids, etc programs
13. DoT - 13% cut - FAA privatization; cuts Amtrak/EAS/TIGER subsidies
14. Treasury - 4% cut - digitize IRS, IRS cybersecurity; cut CDFI
15. Veterans - 6% bonus - increase programs - Veterans Choice
16. EPA - 31% cut - ends anything climate change including CPA; ends funding for certain regional projects - states to fund their own local efforts and programs
17. NASA - 0.8% cut - Asteroid redirect program cut; deep space, Mars, Europa gain; eliminates ‘office of education’
18. SBA - 5% cut - eliminates PRIME and other grants that can be private or locally funded; supports SBA outreach and disaster relief
Steady on!
This budget with notes is something that I can really appreciate. We need to know of this and focus on this.
Let’s get this done. It’s not everything but it’s a running start:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/omb/budget/fy2018/2018_blueprint.pdf
Thank you for presenting me with some hope.
Blueplum: I hope you will repeat this posting on, say, September 1.
Thank you blueplum ... so many are over reacting and turning on the President and this is not even President’s Trump own budget yet - I think Rush has gone back to never Trumper land where he was during the campaign and not listenable for a while until he returns to his senses again.
The real wall will be built - improving the bollard wall is the planning act for the real one.
Rush and Savage and too many others turned coat way too soon.
Thanks for your post!!