Here we go, let’s get this Shutdown party started!
White House officials said the budget would include a total of $1.9 trillion in cuts to mandatory safety net programs, like Medicaid. It also proposes new work requirements for working-age adult recipients of supplemental nutrition assistance, federal housing support and Medicaid, a move the administration said would reduce spending on those programs by $327 billion.
Oh look, “promises kept.”. Hope your days parents aren’t relying on Medicaid!
The budget would not balance for 15 years, breaking Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign promise to pay off the entire national debt within eight years. Mr. Trump’s first budget proposed to achieve balance in 10 years.
Surprise!
The budget forecasts trillion-dollar deficits for four straight years, starting in 2019.
It’s pandering.
His base loves military spending. They lust after spending on a horribly inefficient government construction project (the wall), and they love bootstrap porn–stories of cuts to social services that ostensibly will encourage those lazy poor folk to get off of the couch and stop living off of free stuff.
Clearly, they never truly cared about fiscal conservatism. I think it was something else that was the underlying inspiration for their protests 10 years ago.
An additional $8.6 billion for wall construction? Added to the $5 billion he is using a national emergency to fund? How much are we going to pay for this wall? I thought the $5 billion was for the whole wall.
The Tea Party Uprising will rival the French Revolution in its passion and ferocity, especially since Donald has all but stated he doesn’t care given that he’ll be long gone when the bill comes due.
Unfortunately they’re not RINOS. They’re Republicans. There never were any fiscal conservatives. They’ll magically remember dents and deficits whenever a Dem is back in the WH. But other than that fiscal responsibility is nothing more than empty rhetoric.