laughing at the portrait.
Doubtful. They made plenty of portraits of their own which they thought were funny.
laughing at the portrait.
Surely, this goes beyond simply holding your nose. The Tea Party marched on Washington over Obama spending. Where are they now?
Welp.....looks like we have the choice between a party that spends X amount on their chosen interests and a different party that spends X amount on their chosen interests.
There is no longer a conservative choice for the peons.
The thread title is misleading. Presidents don’t have a budget - that’s up to Congress to pass. Yes, he did sign it and, therefore, I guess he will own it but that just gives Congress a pass. And with that being said the budget that was just passed SUCKS ! I think the Republicans caved in again. Republicans control both houses and the presidency and they still pass can’t pass legislation that adheres to the delegated powers of the Constitution. What a shame.
I'm kind of surprised that this hasn't been discussed yet. I searched but could not find anything more recent than about 9 months ago. This is a VERY un-conservative move, INCREASING the Federal deficit rather than reducing it. Seems to be making a lot of waves in Party circles. Is this NOT the very same issue that the Republicans hammered the Democrats on just a couple of years ago?
The USDA believes that state governments will be able to deliver this food at much less cost than SNAP recipients currently pay for food at retail stores — thus reducing the overall cost of the SNAP program by $129 billion over the next 10 years.
This and other changes in the SNAP program, according to the Trump administration, will reduce the SNAP budget by $213 billion over those years — cutting the program by almost 30 percent.
The White House is seeking to cut more than $2.5 billion from the annual budget of the Environmental Protection Agency — an overall reduction of more than 23 percent.
President Trump's full budget proposal for fiscal year 2018, to be released Tuesday, calls for a $9.2 billion, or 13.5 percent, spending cut to education. The cuts would be spread across K-12 and aid to higher education, according to documents released by the White House.
absolutely disappointing, but not surprising, that spending was not reigned in further under a (R) controlled congress and presidency. All sides of the political spectrum are too dependent on govt $....
-rvb
It does lend one to believe that opposing parties holding congress and the presidency isn't such a bad thing.
It's interesting to hear all the leftists complain about the budget and rue the uncontrolled spending. I suppose it just doesn't have enough "shovel ready projects".
It does lend one to believe that opposing parties holding congress and the presidency isn't such a bad thing.
I think you are not giving credit where credit is due. Trump is also pushing to fundamentally change how the money is spent and this has the potential to drastically lessen the growth of the overall deficit while still allowing priorities such as the wall and the military to be accommodated. when was the last time you saw another Republican propose actual cuts to the departments they were always claiming they would defund?
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesal...-to-decide-what-food-snap-recipients-will-get
Trump Administration Wants To Decide What Food SNAP Recipients Will Get
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...te-dozens-of-programs/?utm_term=.fd75223802cc
Trump budget seeks 23 percent cut at EPA, eliminating dozens of programs
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/201...get-proposal-calls-for-deep-cuts-to-education
President Trump's Budget Proposal Calls For Deep Cuts To Education
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I'm curious about the methodology of this graph. For instance, what is the timeline of the reduction vis a vis the increases? I've only skimmed some assessments of the budget, but it seems like the cuts are in the future (which is normal) and the increases are before the cuts, which is what's causing the bloat.
If that's the case, then this really is the same old same old DC budgeting. Trump may believe it is different; it isn't.
I wish that chart added an actual monetary figure with the percentages. The way it's framed, it looks like the cuts in other agencies heavily outweigh the spending. A 14% increase in military spending probably wipes out half the cuts.
I'm already seeing wailing and teeth gnashing over that SNAP thing. Oh the children! How can you treat the children so unkindly?!?!
For every dollar the government spends, there's a constituency that likes it and demands it be spent. There is no real appetite for real spending cuts (other than maybe Rand Paul). We're getting the government we voted for.