Posted on 01/19/2017 6:13:56 AM PST by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Social Security and Medicare are NOT entitlement programs.
Call it what you want. But with a National Debt that now exceeds annual GDP there can be no sacred cows anymore. Everything has to be on the table for cuts.
How do you intend to justify that to all of us who paid into Social Security and Medicare for 40-50 + years? How do you justify taking our money? Are you going to put military retirement payments on the line too?
A government that doesn’t stand by it’s word will not last long.
The Census Bureau has been a part of the Department of Commerce since 1903.
For some programs, such as the ones you’ve mentioned, the cuts may need to come through taxation on payments and other forms of income, not on payouts. And as far as the word of the government is concerned its first priority is to meet its debt obligations. All of the other obligations are based on it being able to reasonably meet those obligations first. That’s why anyone counting on anything from the government needs to understand and accept the risks. Sorry :(
Hot Doggies! No more wasting my taxpayer dollars on silly liberal stuff. The P!ss Chr!st comes to mind.
Trump ran on not cutting entitlements so it won’t, and shouldn’t, happen.
Voters don’t like being lied to.
(He didn’t rule out ALL entitlements though.)
Don’t get me laughing at the ‘congressional wing’calling Trump irresponsible. My heart can’t take that kind of guffawing.
Congessional wing: “Trump’s ignoring the math!”, now that’s funny- no matter who you are.
We get a 10 trillion cut and don’t have to pass entitlement reform over the objection of the voters- like the Dems did with healthcare.
At least they hadn’t promised not to ‘reform’ healthcare during the campaign!
“The danger, of course, is that Trump will be goaded by a news story and erupt with a tweet” This is just silliness, can’t take such arguments seriously- or people who stoop to them. Hopefully you were injecting levity.
... “ that sabotages an opportunity that may never come again.”
Like the Dems had with health reform. Again- at least they’d discussed that during the campaigns. NO REPUBLICAN WON BY PROMISING TO CUT ENTITLEMENTS.
I “lived” in the WDC area for 30+ years. The government employees “prayed” for weather days off. They always got reimbursed later so it was yet another paid holiday for the slackers. Also, they often griped about being referred to as “nonessential”. I might suggest the term “dead weight”.
He’s going to have a hard fight with Congress on this, but he’s a brawler. Go, Trump! Cut cut cut!
We are not going to get a $10 trillion cut without passing entitlement reform, with or without the objection of the voters. Both the Heritage and the RSC proposals that underlie the Trump team's apparent working proposal rely predominately on entitlement reform. One has to, because that's where the money is, and it's where the outyear budget growth is. Repeal and replace on Obamacare IS entitlement reform, and we fully intend to cut projected outyear spending. How in the world do you think Trump's people think they can get to $10 trillion without entitlements? They can't.
My point about the congressional and "intellectual" wings of the party was simply that these people had perfectly understandable problems with a candidate who was clearly blowing smoke about spending. Yes, the congressional Republicans might have, and probably should have, played their cards differently during the Obama years. They always recognized that Congress couldn't drive budgetary reform without a president who would sign onto serious entitlement cuts. Holding Congress and electing a serious reform Republican in 2016 was always everyone's goal. And then along came Trump, who was out-demagoguing the Democrats on entitlements. You are absolutely correct that Trump did very little, aside from eventually coming around to repeal and replace on Obamacare, to prepare the ground on entitlement reform. That's going to be a problem.
Cut, baby, cut! Cut spending, cut taxes, cut government, cut regulations! MAGA!!
We certainly can but we certainly shouldn't.
No problem, the media headlines claim 28% of government workers say they are considering leaving their jobs due to Trump.
Wonder what the media headlines are going to scream when Trump starts swing the axe and handing out the pink slips?
Oh, the humanity!
Need keep the URL of these little handy for the day when the media starts squealing like stuck pigs when Trump starts implementing cut backs.
Where did Obama get the $500,000,000.00 he gave to the Global Warming arm of the UN?
I doubt we know 10% of what we need to know to make intelligent decisions and a good deal of what we know is the result of propaganda.
Stop it.
Please stop it.
I can’t take any more winning!!!
We haven't had a budget since Obama was elected but he seems to have money to hand out like the 500 million he gave to the UN today. Question is what part of sound budgeting does that look like?
Dramatic, I call them a good start.
Where were all the Conservatives when the chronically unemployed were deemed disabled and added to SS disability?
Obviously Liberals think that funding NPR, PBS and the National Endowment of the Arts is more important than feeding starving Children and taking care of the Elderly.
Use their Dog Food or Prescription Drugs for Old People strategy against them.
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