These 80 Programs Would Lose Federal Funding Under Trump’s Proposed Budget

 islander wrote: 
The utter vulgarity of the Trump administration diverts attention from its more important failures.

Sure, let's name a diplomatic neophyte as Secretary of State, and then  neuter his and its authority by under-staffing and under-funding The Department. .  What could go wrong?

 islander wrote: 
Well, after triage, there will finally be enough physicians for the remaining survivors patients.

Tillerson says diplomacy has failed as North Korea warns of nuclear war

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-tillerson-north-korea-20170316-story.html 


So hey, good news, The health care stuff won't matter so much now.

Trump the Outsider Outsources His Budget to Insider Think Tank

President Trump’s budget proposal, released on Thursday, echoes none of the populist, anti-establishment themes of candidate Trump’s campaign for higher office. Instead, it calls for a large increase in defense spending while reducing spending for a variety of popular domestic programs.

That’s not surprising considering where those ideas came from. Rather than bringing in new ideas from outside of the Beltway, many of its proposals are lifted straight from the recommendations of an elite ultra-conservative D.C. think tank: the Heritage Foundation.

Founded in 1973, Heritage has served as a sort of a watering hole for the Republican establishment, providing policy papers and staffers for GOP members of Congress and presidential administrations. Its 2015 annual report listed almost $100 million in revenues — drawn from conservative mega-donors and corporations — which it uses to facilitate the spread of its ideas across Washington, D.C.

And those ideas have found a home in the Trump administration, which leaned heavily on Heritage advice during the transition period. Many of the White House proposal’s ideas are identical to a budget blueprint Heritage drew up last year. (...)

Same old, same old...

 aflanigan wrote:

Nice try, but even Thomas owned slaves.

 Lazy8 wrote: 
I think that gala is honoring Thomas and Jesse. The color reproduction on the website is misleading.

 

Also, you have tiny hands.

 Lazy8 wrote: 
Why don't the Whigs have a gala?  I like the passage about the fate of the Democratic-Republican party: "The party splintered in 1824 into the Jacksonian movement..."  You couldn't take that Old Hickory anywhere once he ate a bowl of Grape Nuts, could you.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
Get your tickets to the 2017 gala here.

 Lazy8 wrote: 
Of course the GOP of today doesn't have much to do with the old days, either.

 Red_Dragon wrote:
...and celebrated hero of the Democratic Party.

45 sings praises of Andrew Jackson, pro-slavery facilitator of ethnic cleansing in America

 Proclivities wrote: 

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
According to Mulvaney, it's being entirely paid for by a coal miner from West Virginia and a single mom from Detroit, with the money they'll have left over from not paying for the CPB.  Mexico will reimburse them on Flag Day as long as they return General Santa Anna's wooden leg - it's gonna be tremendous!

His budget includes $2.6 billion for his border wall. I thought Mexico was paying for that.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is one of the programs that does not fare well in the Trump administration's budget proposal

Mulvaney justifies budget: We can't ask a coal miner to pay for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

As they fleshed out the budget blueprint released Thursday morning by the White House, Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney said officials from the administration of President Donald Trump asked themselves: Can we ask the taxpayer to pay for this?

For a dramatic uptick in military funding, Mulvaney said, the answer was yes. For a wide array of domestic programs, it turns out, the answer was no.

Trump’s budget, which Mulvaney said was assembled in part by examining excerpts from the president’s speeches and media interviews, delivers on his campaign promise to build up the military, designating an additional $54 billion in defense spending. The budget pays for that additional spending by cutting funding to nearly every other department, including 21 percent budget cuts at the departments of Labor and Agriculture, 28 percent at the State Department and 31 percent at the Environmental Protection Agency.

“When you start looking at places that we reduce spending, one of the questions we asked was can we really continue to ask a coal miner in West Virginia or a single mom in Detroit to pay for these programs? The answer was no,” Mulvaney said Thursday morning on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “We can ask them to pay for defense, and we will, but we can’t ask them to continue to pay for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.”

Federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting would be cut entirely under Trump’s budget blueprint, which also reduces spending on the Coast Guard by 14 percent and FEMA by 11 percent...

Federal judge in Hawaii freezes President Trump’s new entry ban