Here Are The 66 Programs Eliminated In Trump's Budget

President Trump's fiscal 2018 budget proposal would completely eliminate 66 federal programs, for a savings of $26.7 billion.

Some of the programs would receive funding for 2018 as part of a phasing-out plan.

So much of the budget has become obligatory that it has become hard to cut enough to make a difference but at least it is a start.

If someone really wanted to cut the budget we would end the practice of Base Line Budgeting and every aspect of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and every successor related to it.

We need solid ZERO BASE BUDGETING to control costs. What we have is an open invitation for waste, fraud and abuse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseline_(budgeting)

The damn thing is a crime against the taxpayer. Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia:

The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 provided the first legal definition of baseline. For the most part, the act defined the baseline in conformity with previous usage. If appropriations had not been enacted for the upcoming fiscal year, the baseline was to assume the previous year’s level without any adjustment for inflation. In 1987, however, the Congress amended the definition of the baseline so that discretionary appropriations would be adjusted to keep pace with inflation. Other technical changes, annual increase of now approximately 3% plus inflation, to the definition of the baseline were enacted in 1990, 1993, and 1997. Presently, the [automatic annual] Baseline Budgeting increase is about 7%.

Does your pay go up 7% a year? NEITHER DOES MINE so why should the feral gubment’s pay go up like that?

Thank Reagan for not vetoing this mess and going to the mat with Tip O’neal about it and thank Tricky Dick for the EPA and thank Reagan for what is now the 401K disaster. Other than that they were republicans and maybe did some good things.

You nailed it. Hubby worked the Flight Deck a lot, but his MOS was Communications/Electronics and keeping them functioning. Operation Frequent Wind, Nam USS Midway, his last ship was the USS Enchon. Then he contract taught the same thing for a number of years, before going to a local State Tech school with that type department and ended as his department’s chairman. He is now retired from both. They just had their 50th reunion for the school. Something like 4 hrs short of his Master’s teaching degree.

We were a training base, but the Navy decided to make it BUPERS, paper pushers/record keepers. Most of the paper ones were destroyed when Nashville flooded a few years ago, we are on the other end West TN, just outside Memphis. Lot of the base facilities were sold to the city of Millington. Fed Ex now flies planes out of there, but Navy still does Touch & go’s on the weekends. ALL the prices at the Exchange went sky high, and much of the parking is Brass. And you know they got the best of the Housing. The base flooded at the same time as the Nashville flood, not much LSM coverage, wiped out the whole south side, base housing, many office buildings. They cleaned up some, but called in the big city bus size Serv Pro to do the major clean up. Contracted the repairs out.

There were piles of records damaged by the flood and the base was not accessible for a couple of weeks to Retirees. 1 lone FEMA bus to service the whole city of Millington. Wiped out 2 trailer courts it looked like Katrina with all those orange X’s and the sewage stink. Surrounding counties were flooded for months after.

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