Added to this is an effort to starve Obamacare …
Cut Medicaid….
Cut Medicare…..
Cut’s in HUD’s budget…
Cut’s in The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
Cut’s in the Commerce Dept…..
And more….
Of course the President’s budget wishes has to go thru the US Congress and the final budget won’t look anything like what Trump just asked for….
With House Speaker Nancy Pelosi controls…
(Trump hasn’t spoken to her for months it’s reported)
So a lot of Donald Trump’s wishes aren’t gonna make the final cut….
This is NOT pre-2019 when the Republicans had both houses of Congress….
Things WILL BE different….
President Trump is expected to release a $4.8 trillion budget Monday that charts a path for the start of a potential second term, proposing steep cuts to social-safety-net programs and foreign aid and higher outlays for defense and veterans.
The plan would increase military spending 0.3%, to $740.5 billion for fiscal year 2021, which begins Oct. 1, according to a senior administration official. The proposal would cut nondefense spending by 5%, to $590 billion, below the level Congress and the president agreed to in a two-year budget deal last summer.
A White House budget reflects an administration’s priorities and represents the opening bid in spending negotiations for the next fiscal year. The new budget proposal is unlikely to become law, however, as Democrats control the House and spending bills in the GOP-led Senate need bipartisan support.
This year, the budget also reveals Mr. Trump’s fiscal policy objectives should he win reelection in November, and his campaign messaging will likely reflect its broad strokes. The president’s aides have been meeting since late last year to craft a second-term agenda.
Among the agencies that would receive the biggest boost is NASA, which would see a 12% increase next year as Mr. Trump seeks to fulfill his goal of returning astronauts to the moon by 2024. On the other hand, the Environmental Protection Agency’s spending would be slashed by 26%.
The plan would request $2 billion in new funding for construction of the wall on the southern U.S. border, the senior administration official said—Mr. Trump’s signature 2016 campaign promise that sparked fights with Democrats in Congress, leading the president to trigger a historic five-week government shutdown last winter after lawmakers refused to fund the project. The latest $2 billion request is significantly less than the $5 billion the administration sought last year.
The White House proposes to cut spending by $4.4 trillion over a decade. Of that, it targets $2 trillion in savings from mandatory spending programs, including $130 billion from changes to Medicare prescription-drug pricing, $292 billion from safety-net cuts—such as work requirements for Medicaid and food stamps—and $70 billion from tightening eligibility access to federal disability benefits.
In campaigning for the White House Mr. Trump had promised voters he would protect funding for Medicare and Medicaid. His new budget’s proposals to find savings through changes to those programs reflect longstanding GOP efforts to reduce federal safety-net spending, and come the week after all but one Republican senator voted to acquit the president of impeachment charges passed by House Democrats….
image…theguardian.com
Build the Wall and fund a Space Force that almost no-one else wants (least of all the JCS) by slashing the EPA and social services.
After all, one must set priorities.
David Rothschild
@DavMicRot
Basically the US economy has continued on the exact same trends from 2010 to 2020 with notable exception of souring debt since Trump took over. In short, Trump Regime borrowing a ton of money to artificially inflate economy enough to get him reelected. Then comes the reckoning…
The White House is asking for a boost to this year’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) budget, a proposal that includes 60,000 detention beds — 6,000 more than last year’s budget proposal and around 15,000 more than ICE actually received.
Why it matters: It is a “wildly large” ask, an administration official told Axios. “It’s almost too much money absent any sort of immigration reform.”
By the numbers: The administration’s immigration focus seems to have shifted from the border wall to detention….
More…