The 22 agencies and programs Trump's budget would eliminate

The Hill ^ | February 12, 2018

[spintreebob]

Most of these programs give out grants to navigators aka community organizers, aka campaign volunteers

[spintreebob]

Eliminate the ATF. States already regulate Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Federal regulation is redundant and unnecessary.

Eliminate the Dept of Transportation. Hang Mission Accomplished on every bridge over the freeways. What is needed now is maintenance and short connectors. States are better at that than the Feds.

[Architect of Avalon]

According to the presiding narrative, White people are all privileged oppressors and therefor do not need any help.

[11th_VA]

What do you call Trump’s budget?

Answer: A good start

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

If Trump can eliminate all those agencies, it will be a wondrous miracle.

[bigtoona]

The ATF should be a convenience store chain!

[catnipman]

The Advanced Research Projects Agency really ought to be kept IF it is still doing the kind of good work it did in the latter third of the 20th century. OTOH, if it’s been perverted into uselessness by Obammunism, then it needs to go.

[Cannoneer]

The one missing that needs to go is HUD. More politicians and contractors have gone to jail from graft and theft in this department than any other in my mind. HUD has a history of building or funding substandard low income housing for ever. Many units are destroyed or abandoned in less than 5 years. and the theft of public funds is enormous.

Theft of public funds and failure to provide for the people it is intended to help. Private charities do so much better in providing community assistance.

[Kickass Conservative]

If it isn’t in the Constitution, it needs to be eliminated.

One other thing, how about a Part Time Legislature just for yuks?

[oincobx]

I wouldn’t get too excited about this. Most of these agencies were cut from the President’s budget last year, but here they still are. Do you really think the President is even aware 2/3 of these agencies exist? This list was put together by OMB. I don’t really see the President expending a lot of political capital to get rid of things like the regional commissions. Lastly, even with these cuts the budget does not balance in 10 years. While any cuts are a start, this obviously isn’t where the real money is.