The Briefing Room
General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on May 23, 2017, 01:26:32 pm
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Trump's budget hits his own voters hardest
The president's proposal for next year's federal spending calls for more than $1 trillion in cuts to social programs, including farm aid.
By Andrew Restuccia , Matthew Nussbaum and Sarah Ferris
05/22/2017 09:00 PM EDT
Donald Trump, whose populist message and promises to help American workers propelled him to the White House, is set to issue a budget proposal on Tuesday that instead takes aim at the social safety net on which many of his supporters rely.
Rather than breaking with Washington precedent, Trump’s spending blueprint follows established conservative orthodoxy, cutting taxes on the wealthy, boosting defense spending and taking a hatchet to programs for the poor and disabled – potentially hurting many of the rural and low-income Americans that voted him into office.
The budget proposal underscores the wide gulf between campaigning and governing, even for a president who promised to rewrite the presidential rule book.
more
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/22/trump-budget-cut-social-programs-238696
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The story is in the final paragraph.
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The budget proposal underscores the wide gulf between campaigning and governing, even for a president who promised to rewrite the presidential rule book.
Some are getting mileage out of that...
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Trump's budget hits his own voters hardest
The president's proposal for next year's federal spending calls for more than $1 trillion in cuts to social programs, including farm aid.
By Andrew Restuccia , Matthew Nussbaum and Sarah Ferris
05/22/2017 09:00 PM EDT
Donald Trump, whose populist message and promises to help American workers propelled him to the White House, is set to issue a budget proposal on Tuesday that instead takes aim at the social safety net on which many of his supporters rely.
Rather than breaking with Washington precedent, Trump’s spending blueprint follows established conservative orthodoxy, cutting taxes on the wealthy, boosting defense spending and taking a hatchet to programs for the poor and disabled – potentially hurting many of the rural and low-income Americans that voted him into office.
The budget proposal underscores the wide gulf between campaigning and governing, even for a president who promised to rewrite the presidential rule book.
more
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/22/trump-budget-cut-social-programs-238696
Because things have been so wonderful for those voters in the previous 8 years?
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Let's talk about the term "CUTS" again.
Is it really a cut in overall spending, or is it simply a cut in spending INCREASE? If the latter, then there are NO CUTS.
Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that medicaid’s budget is 100 billion. With a proposed increase of 5% which would put the new budget at 105,000,000,000. A proposal is given to cut the increase in half to 2.5%, which means the budget is increasing to 102,500,000,000. Democrats will claim that medicaid is being cut by 2.5 billion. When in reality it’s actually INCREASING by 2.5 billion.
They pull that out that lie every time someone tries to get spending under control and the Republicans allow them to do it. I wonder if Trump is as good a communications man as he claims to be....