Trump budget would cut $4.4T in
spending, boosting defense while
slashing safety nets, foreign aid
Fox News,
by
Gregg Re
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
2/10/2020 4:02:27 AM
The White House on Sunday unveiled a $4.8 trillion budget proposal that would slash spending dramatically on foreign aid and social safety nets, while including $2 billion for a southern border wall and substantially boosting funding to NASA, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Homeland Security.
Fox News has confirmed the details of the budget, which The Wall Street Journal first reported. The package, set to be formally announced on Monday, as-is stood little chance of passage in the House of Representatives, which the Democrats have controlled. Still, it served as a signal of the president's priorities as Republicans
Reply 1 - Posted by:
John C 2/10/2020 4:22:00 AM (No. 313542)
Sounds like rational cuts and changes to me.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
FleetUSA 2/10/2020 4:45:24 AM (No. 313547)
Title sounds wrong???? A $4.8 trillion budget which would cut $4.4T????
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
chumley 2/10/2020 5:13:25 AM (No. 313562)
These multi year budgets are a total scam. I'm surprised anyone buys it anymore. Budgets are done annually. 4.4 trillion in cuts over ten years applies only until congress decides to end those cuts, usually the next year. Every president in recent memory has promised cuts over X number of years. Has anyone ever seen those cuts happen, or does the debt continue to accelerate?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rinktum 2/10/2020 6:23:24 AM (No. 313603)
If anyone will fight for these cuts, it is President Trump. He knows that waste and fraud are rampant in this corrupt government. I sincerely hope that he pushes to dry up the political trough that corrupt politicians have buried their greedy little snouts in for decades. The American tax payer has been robbed by these do nothing elites for way too long. We all know they enrich themselves at our expense. This President will fight to put an end to their thieving ways. This is another reason we must re-elect the President, maintain the Senate and win back the House. Now more than ever, Trump 2020.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Bluefindad 2/10/2020 7:40:21 AM (No. 313652)
The Dems will oppose any cuts. Pelosi claimed in 2010 that food stamps are an economic boon, generating $1.79 in economic activity for every $1.00 spent. Plus, the Dems and assorted anti-Trumpers want the huge deficit to bash Trump with going into the election.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/10/2020 8:03:40 AM (No. 313671)
Taxpayers have been complaining about government waste for decades but there is always a reason provided by Congress not to make cuts. If anybody can get it done, Trump will. The House will become ours in November.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
The Remnants 2/10/2020 8:10:30 AM (No. 313676)
Still, $35 million for Mueller "investigation" ?
No problem.
Probably even cost more, but we'll never know.
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Great angst over nothing. The President's proposal is always DOA, and contains all sorts of cuts and adds...and never ends up like that when the sausage making is done.
Budgets are the vehicle for taking home the bacon, One can get elected pledging to control spending and cut out the waste, fraud and abuse...unless all that means employment of your constituents, rental of local properties, and all sorts of local spending on office supplies to gasoline.
Of course there is something for which PDT will "fight"...but there's plenty more that Congress will defend and even increase to the hilt.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
udanja99 2/10/2020 8:27:42 AM (No. 313693)
The left will rant and scream and tear their hair out about why they can’t cut entitlements. It will be all about how mean and uncaring Orange Man Bad is and about how he hates minorities. Nasty has already said that the 8 million people who are no longer on food stamps have had them “taken away” by PDT. He needs to keep pounding away about his unemployment records and pointing out that truth is that those people no longer need food stamps because they have well paying JOBS. (That 3 letter word, right, Joe?)
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 2/10/2020 8:31:11 AM (No. 313697)
It's best to review Re's piece to understand the proposal. The President's proposal would seek to cut spending by $4.4 trillion over 10 years. If we assume the cuts are level over the 10 years, this equals about $440 billion per year. Not sure that this will be enough unless the dollar is further inflated, but, the goal is to bring spend and revenue into balance.
The President's attempt to restore financial solvency within the federal government is admirable and will be a major priority in his second term. We are running out of time because the long-anticipated global financial crisis is imminent. But, the dims, deep state, and the msm want the crisis to happen. In their view, the more chaos advance their agenda, the better. Notice how quick Pelousy was on Sunday to sneer at the President's proposal.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 2/10/2020 8:34:14 AM (No. 313702)
Good idea, Mr. President. But we all know that the H.O.R. would rather we all rot in hell, So it is unlikely they would approve the use of fire extinguishers should the place catch fire.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Muguy 2/10/2020 9:15:48 AM (No. 313756)
When in recent memory has this county tightened is belt?
Illegals pouring over the border takes more and more money.
Unfunded mandates takes more and more money.
Unbridled spending which Nobama left us like a terd in a punchbowl takes more and more money
The value of the dollar takes a beating every time we print more and more money
"Entitlements" over time are going to swallow the GDP in bigger chunks each year--
The entrenched in DC are too cowardly to attempt to do anything about it, so like a fuse on a firecracker, they hope it will go out before the big *boom* which gets closer and closer each year.
If more demonrat socialists ever gets into DC, IT'S OVER.
Vote your values, and vote RED to Remove Every Demonrat
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 2/10/2020 9:50:03 AM (No. 313801)
Very disappointing that President Trump has no intention of seriously cutting back the welfare state. His budget could have been created by any Bush acolyte.
The federal budget should be less than half of what it is now. Let's hope he has more "flexibility" after the election.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Clinger 2/10/2020 10:10:57 AM (No. 313833)
FTA: "....president is showing just how little he values the good health, financial security and well-being of hard-working American families"
No Nancy, you are selling my children and grandchildren down the river to a life of servitude to pay for the votes you and your kind have been purchasing with their future toil. That's the best case scenario, the other customary historical end to the path you have us on, war. How dare you.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
NotaBene 2/10/2020 11:10:41 AM (No. 313930)
Like Trump’s thinking. EPA, Food Stamps Foreign Countries and so many other good things in this budget. Our Nation got lucky with Trump.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
stablemoney 2/10/2020 11:11:03 AM (No. 313931)
I like Trump's plan. It cuts some of the spending that should never have been the responsibility of government in the first place. I know Gates and Buffet want to pay more taxes. Soros and Bloomberg waste billions on useless political spending. So they should form a 501(3), put their money there, and spend it like they say they want, on food stamps for those that will not work, on foreign aid, homelessness, healthcare and schooling for illegals. Hollywood can contribute. Do what you say, leftists, do it, put up the money in a 501(3) and go to it.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 2/10/2020 12:12:47 PM (No. 314008)
Sounds good to me.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Krause 2/10/2020 4:39:00 PM (No. 314293)
And the dems say......'What's a budget?'
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
BRDG 2/10/2020 5:03:43 PM (No. 314309)
The ONLY thing Clinton accomplished was the welfare reform the Republicans jammed down his throat.
"Experts" predicted that poverty would SKYROCKET. But a decade later poverty was exactly unchanged at 12.8%
Trump should sell it as Clinton's "successful" welfare reform. How could they vote against it?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 2/10/2020 6:20:52 PM (No. 314370)
Not slashing "safety nets", slashing HAMMOCKS for the lazy and unwilling.
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