{"id":400090,"date":"2019-03-18T07:55:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T06:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trumps-nightmare-budget\/"},"modified":"2019-03-18T07:55:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T06:55:05","slug":"trumps-nightmare-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trumps-nightmare-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Nightmare Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\t\t\t\tMarch 15, 2019<\/span><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tby<\/span> Mel Gurtov<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Two things can be said with certainty about Trump\u2019s 2020 budget request: It is DOA, dead on arrival, in the House; and it is a political document, catering to his loyal supporters, rather than a serious fiscal statement. What the budget request reveals is that Trump, left to his own devices, would further skewer the middle class and low-income groups, downgrade diplomacy and environmental protection, give the military more than it really wants or needs, and fulfill his obsession with a border wall. To say the budget is revolting and immoral would be a vast understatement. But it may (and should) give Democrats additional evidence of Trump\u2019s unfitness to lead.<\/p>\n

Below is a quick breakdown of the budget proposal. The\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0<\/a><\/em>has a very good analysis March 13, 2019, at the source for the figures below.<\/p>\n

Proposed changes to funding in Trump\u2019s budget<\/strong><\/p>\n

-31% Environmental Protection Agency
-24% State and USAID
-19% Transportation
-16% Housing and Urban Development
-15% Agriculture
-14% Interior
-12% Health and Human Services
-12% Education
-11% Energy
-10% Labor
-2% Justice
-2% NASA
-2% Treasury
+5% Defense
+7% Commerce
+7% Homeland Security
+8% Veterans Affairs<\/p>\n

Key proposed additions<\/strong>
\u2013Adds more than $33 billion to the Department of Defense budget, for a total of $718 billion, 57 percent of the proposed federal discretionary budget
\u2013Allocates $8.6 billion to build sections of a wall…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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March 15, 2019 by Mel Gurtov Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair Two things can be said with certainty about Trump\u2019s 2020 budget request: It is DOA, dead on arrival, in the House; and it is a political document, catering to his loyal supporters, rather than a serious fiscal statement. What the budget request reveals is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}