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GOP trashes Trump’s plan to end dozens of government programs
McClatcy DC Bureau ^ | July 21, 2017 | WILLIAM DOUGLAS AND ANSHU SIRIPURAPU

Posted on 07/24/2017 5:23:40 AM PDT by 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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 115th; draintheswamp; federalspending; speakerryan; trumpadm; trumpbudget
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1 posted on 07/24/2017 5:23:40 AM PDT by be-baw
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To: be-baw

Now we know who our true enemies are.


2 posted on 07/24/2017 5:25:24 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: be-baw

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


3 posted on 07/24/2017 5:25:40 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: be-baw

He has veto power


4 posted on 07/24/2017 5:25:55 AM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it, but ready to go again)
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To: be-baw

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.


5 posted on 07/24/2017 5:27:18 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: eartick

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


6 posted on 07/24/2017 5:27:26 AM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it, but ready to go again)
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To: be-baw
as a conservative Republican Congress refuses to go along
7 posted on 07/24/2017 5:28:05 AM PDT by LostPassword
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To: be-baw

We have a conservative rebulican Congress?


8 posted on 07/24/2017 5:28:45 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: IronJack
"...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!!!!!

9 posted on 07/24/2017 5:29:14 AM PDT by rlmorel (Donald Trump: Making Liberal Heads Explode 140 Characters At A Time.)
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To: IronJack

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


10 posted on 07/24/2017 5:29:29 AM PDT by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: eartick

.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!!!!!!


11 posted on 07/24/2017 5:30:07 AM PDT by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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Veto and force them to override with dem votes and show their true colors.


12 posted on 07/24/2017 5:31:33 AM PDT by Bobalu ( Healthcare - someone must pay. Who should it be, and how did they get that obligation?)
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To: rlmorel

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....


13 posted on 07/24/2017 5:31:46 AM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012 ("Be quiet... you are #fakenews!")
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To: be-baw

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.


14 posted on 07/24/2017 5:32:12 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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To: be-baw

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.


15 posted on 07/24/2017 5:33:11 AM PDT by madprof98
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To: be-baw

The Republican Congress is conservative?


16 posted on 07/24/2017 5:33:13 AM PDT by henkster (Ask your favorite liberal to take the "Snowflake Challenge.")
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To: Jim Noble

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


17 posted on 07/24/2017 5:35:35 AM PDT by vmivol00 (I won't be reconstructed.)
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To: Jim Noble
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.
18 posted on 07/24/2017 5:36:25 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: 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.

Conservative Republican Congress? That's a flat lie.

19 posted on 07/24/2017 5:37:53 AM PDT by Flick Lives (#CNNblackmail)
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To: be-baw

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


20 posted on 07/24/2017 5:38:05 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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