Trump Budget Boogaloo 2019 Edition

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.

Remember when Deficits were bad?

So what are we getting?

Mr. Trump’s budget, the largest in federal history, includes a nearly 5 percent increase in military spending — which is more than the Pentagon had asked for — and an additional $8.6 billion for construction of a border wall with Mexico.

Money for the military they didn’t want and money for a wall most people don’t want.

And the Clown Fiesta continues.

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Fiscal conservatism at its finest

its a total farce of a budget.

Reminds me of the day of Reagan’s second term budgets.

Fantasyland.

Allan

Where’s that poster telling us how much of a fiscal conservative Trump is?

So… Party of Trump is for excessive deficit spending and cutting health care for seniors?

He’s padding the budget in case he needs those funds via another national emergency.

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I’m sitting here in awe of how fiscally conservative that budget is, and how it will help pay off our debt in 8 years.

Damn - I managed to type that whole thing with a straight face. I should get a grammy.

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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.

This budget is Trump 2020 campaign material.

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.

Does trump still have the crowd chant that mexico will pay for the qall at his campaign rallies?

I bet they still chant it believing mexico is actually paying for it…

https://twitter.com/jamiedupree/status/1105138309519552514?s=19

Says it all…

This is a garbage budget like the ones that preceded it and really just exists to stir up wall funding debate.

Sad thing is, the budget that Congress ends up sending back to Trump will be even bigger.

What’s sad is the party that screams fiscal responsibility is utterly incapable of practicing any.

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Yup. Truly.

It’s mostly populated with Establishment RINOS more concerned with the next election than what’s best for the country.

So Trump is an Establishment Rino now? Cool beans.

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.

Let them eat Trump steak!

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Yeah, where is the Tea Party?

Weren’t posters here part of the Tea Party?

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Kudos for not a lame deflection at “but Dems!!!”

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.

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Oh thats brillant…i didnt even think of that…