Trump Budget Seeks Big Cuts to Environment, Arts, Foreign Aid

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I wonder what the MDL will talk about today?

 

President Donald Trump will call for sharp cuts to spending on foreign aid, the arts, environmental protection and public broadcasting to pay for a bigger military and a more secure border in a fiscal 2018 budget blueprint set for release Thursday.

 

The budget proposal is certain to run into stiff opposition in Congress, where lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have already signaled they are unlikely to enact Mr. Trump’s deep cuts when they pass spending bills that actually fund the government.

 

The budget proposes hefty cuts for the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Institutes of Health and the State Department. It also seeks to eliminate funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts and other independent agencies long in the crosshairs of some conservative Republicans.

 

The cuts, if enacted, would mean some agencies would have to lay off federal workers, though the budget doesn’t always offer exact head counts. It does specify that cuts to the EPA “would result in approximately 3,200 fewer positions at the agency.”

“You can’t drain the swamp and leave all the people in it,” said Mick Mulvaney, the president’s budget director. “I would expect there would have to be reductions of forces at various agencies.”

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-budget-seeks-big-cuts-to-environment-arts-foreign-aid-1489636861

 

 

 

[Dakine10 5,452]

22 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

 

“You can’t drain the swamp and leave all the people in it,” 

 

  They're getting a lot of play out of that line. Do they really think the MDR is that gullible?

 

  There was not, nor will there be even an attempt at draining the swamp.

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1 hour ago, Dakine10 said:

  They're getting a lot of play out of that line. Do they really think the MDR is that gullible?

 

  There was not, nor will there be even an attempt at draining the swamp.

So this isn't an attempt?  Did you mean to say that their will never be any success in draining the swamp?  I doubt the budget will pass, but if Trump gets even a small percentage of the cuts he is proposing it would be good for the taxpayers.