Trump team prepares dramatic cuts

The Hill ^ | 1/19/17 | Bolton

[pabianice]

Donald Trump is ready to take an ax to government spending.

Staffers for the Trump transition team have been meeting with career staff at the White House ahead of Friday’s presidential inauguration to outline their plans for shrinking the federal bureaucracy, The Hill has learned.

The changes they propose are dramatic.

The departments of Commerce and Energy would see major reductions in funding, with programs under their jurisdiction either being eliminated or transferred to other agencies. The departments of Transportation, Justice and State would see significant cuts and program eliminations.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting would be privatized, while the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities would be eliminated entirely.

Overall, the blueprint being used by Trump’s team would reduce federal spending by $10.5 trillion over 10 years.

[RipSawyer]

“That leaves $1.5T for everything else. Pretty tough to cut half of that.”

If you eliminated everything not authorized by the constitution it would make a heck of a dent in it.

[Still Thinking]

We’d probably get sued by the Martians, though.

[Still Thinking]

So far, so good. I like the sound of liberals crying over their jobs and programs. Is there a way we can preserve their tears in some sort of Heritage fashion? Pure unadulterated raw liberal tears?

It's more fun to just keep making new ones.

[PLMerite]

“...while the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities would be eliminated entirely.”

They could become privately financed charities like they always should have been. Give them to the Clintons to loot...er, administer.

[Sam Gamgee]

I agree, especially after reading “the Dunces of Doomsday”. An older book and I have to take the author’s word for it, but it seems we did Al Queda’s dirty work in the 1990s when we went after Serbia.