Daniel Dale
@ddale8
Trump is proposing massive cuts to scientific research; National Institutes of Health cut by $6 billion, about 20%:
Trump’s budget calls for seismic disruption in medical and science researchwashingtonpost.com
10:14 AM · Mar 16, 2017105 RETWEETS
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As Trump proposes cut Public Broadcasting, take a few minutes to listen Fred Rogers 1969 testimony to Congress.
May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on...www.youtube.com
May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on...www.youtube.com
Glenn Thrush @GlennThrush
[h=1]Senior aide to Hill GOP leadership on Trump/budget: 'its a joke...we've learned not to listen to anything he says or does. We're on our own'[/h]
[h=1]Senior aide to Hill GOP leadership on Trump/budget: 'its a joke...we've learned not to listen to anything he says or does. We're on our own'[/h]
Steven Portnoy @stevenportnoy
[h=1]JUST IN: McCain on Trump's plan -- "It is clear that this budget proposed today cannot pass the Senate."[/h]
[h=1]JUST IN: McCain on Trump's plan -- "It is clear that this budget proposed today cannot pass the Senate."[/h]
Stonekettle @Stonekettle
[h=1]Remember when Conservatives were all "Obama killed the space program?"God, I miss those days. [/h]
Scientific American @sciam
[h=1]Remember when Conservatives were all "Obama killed the space program?"God, I miss those days. [/h]
Scientific American @sciam
Trump Budget Proposes Killing All Funding for PBS, NPR and National Endowment for the Arts
http://www.thewrap.com/trump-budget...-national-endowment-arts-public-broadcasting/
[h=2]Trump Seeks to Slash U.S. Funding for UN by Over Half[/h]https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/item/25601-trump-seeks-to-slash-us-funding-for-un-by-over-half
dbanana0-9
http://www.thewrap.com/trump-budget...-national-endowment-arts-public-broadcasting/
[h=2]Trump Seeks to Slash U.S. Funding for UN by Over Half[/h]https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/item/25601-trump-seeks-to-slash-us-funding-for-un-by-over-half
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Eric Garland @ericgarland
[h=1]The disregard for society, ecology, arts, science, education, and law in favor of military power and private wealth has a name: FASCISM. [/h]Jordan Uhl @JordanUhlTrump's budget cuts: Ag 21%DOC 16%Ed 13%DOE 5.6%HHS 17.9%HUD 13.2DOI 12%DOJ 3.8%DOL 21%State 28%DOT 13%Treasury 4%EPA 31%
[h=1]The disregard for society, ecology, arts, science, education, and law in favor of military power and private wealth has a name: FASCISM. [/h]Jordan Uhl @JordanUhlTrump's budget cuts: Ag 21%DOC 16%Ed 13%DOE 5.6%HHS 17.9%HUD 13.2DOI 12%DOJ 3.8%DOL 21%State 28%DOT 13%Treasury 4%EPA 31%
Trump Releases His First Budget Blueprint: Here Are The Winners And Losers
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by Tyler Durden
Mar 16, 2017 9:29 AM
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Today at 7am, Trump released his "skinny budget", his administration's first federal budget blueprint revealing the President's plan to dramatically reduce the size of the government. As previewed last night, the document calls for deep cuts at departments and agencies that would eliminate entire programs and slash the size of the federal workforce. It also proposes a $54 billion increase in defense spending, which the White House says will be offset by the other cuts.
“This is the ‘America First’ budget,” said White House budget director Mick Mulvaney, a former South Carolina congressman who made a name for himself as a spending hawk before Trump plucked him for his Cabinet, adding that “if he said it in the campaign, it’s in the budget.”
In a proposal with many losers, the Environmental Protection Agency and State Department stand out as targets for the biggest spending reductions. Funding would disappear altogether for 19 independent bodies that count on federal money for public broadcasting, the arts and regional issues from Alaska to Appalachia. Trump's budget outline is a bare-bones plan covering just "discretionary" spending for the 2018 fiscal year starting on Oct. 1. It is the first volley in what is expected to be an intense battle over spending in coming months in Congress, which holds the federal purse strings and seldom approves presidents' budget plans.
Trump wants to spend $54 billion more on defense, put a down payment on his border wall, and breathe life into a few other campaign promises. His initial budget outline does not incorporate his promise to pour $1 trillion into roads, bridges, airports and other infrastructure projects. The budget directs several agencies to shift resources toward fighting terrorism and cybercrime, enforcing sanctions, cracking down on illegal immigration and preventing government waste.
The White House has said the infrastructure plan is still to come.
That said, Congress controlled by Trump's fellow Republicans, is likely to reject some or many of his proposed cuts with some republicans calling the budget "dead on arrival." Some of the proposed changes, which Democrats will broadly oppose, have been targeted for decades by conservative Republicans. Moderate Republicans have already expressed unease with potential cuts to popular domestic programs such as home-heating subsidies, clean-water projects and job training.
Trump is willing to discuss priorities, said Mulvaney. "The president wants to spend more money on defense, more money securing the border, more money enforcing the laws, and more money on school choice, without adding to the deficit," Mulvaney told a small group of reporters during a preview on Wednesday. "If they have a different way to accomplish that, we are more than interested in talking to them," Mulvaney said.
The defense increases are matched by cuts to other programs so as to not increase the $488 billion federal deficit. Mulvaney acknowledged the proposal would likely result in significant cuts to the federal workforce. "You can’t drain the swamp and leave all the people in it," Mulvaney said.
A visual summary of the proposed budget changes is shown below, courtesy of Reuters:
The biggest losers:
Trump asked Congress to slash the EPA by $2.6 billion or more than 31 percent, and the State Department by more than 28 percent or $10.9 billion. Mulvaney said the "core functions" of those agencies would be preserved. Hit hard would be foreign aid, grants to multilateral development agencies like the World Bank and climate change programs at the United Nations.
Trump wants to get rid of more than 50 EPA programs, end funding for former Democratic President Barack Obama's signature Clean Power Plan aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions, and cut renewable energy research programs at the Energy Department. Regional programs to clean up the Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay would be sent to the chopping block.
Community development grants at the Housing Department - around since 1974 - were cut in Trump's budget, along with more than 20 Education Department programs, including some funding program for before- and after- school programs. Anti-poverty grants and a program that helps poor people pay their energy bills would be slashed, as well as a Labor Department program that helps low-income seniors find work.
Long reviled by conservatives, the Internal Revenue Service would get a $239 million cut, despite Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s request for more funding. The Education Department would receive $1.4 billion to invest in public charter schools and private schools, even as its overall budget is cut by 14 percent. But other numbers appear to contradict some of Trump’s top priorities. One of his campaign pledges was to work to cure diseases, but the National Institutes of Health will reportedly see $5.8 billion slashed from its budget.
Trump calls for a 13 percent cut to the Transportation Department, which would ostensibly play a big role in Trump’s promised infrastructure overhaul. That includes $500 million from the TIGER grant program, which provides funding for road and bridge projects.
Trump's rural base did not escape cuts. The White House proposed a 21 percent reduction to the Agriculture Department, cutting loans and grants for wastewater, reducing staff in county offices and ending a popular program that helps U.S. farmers donate crops for overseas food aid.
And the winners
White House officials looked at Trump's campaign speeches and "America First" pledges as they crunched the numbers, Mulvaney said. "We turned those policies into numbers," he said, explaining how the document mirrored pledges to spend more on the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal, veterans' health care, the FBI, and Justice Department efforts to fight drug dealers and violent crime.
The Department of Homeland Security would get a 6.8 percent increase, with more money for extra staff needed to catch, detain and deport illegal immigrants. Trump wants Congress to shell out $1.5 billion for the border wall with Mexico in the current fiscal year - enough for pilot projects to determine the best way to build it - and a further $2.6 billion in fiscal 2018, Mulvaney said.
The estimate of the full cost of the wall will be included in the full budget, expected in mid-May, which will project spending and revenues over 10 years. Trump has vowed Mexico will pay for the border wall, which the Mexican government has flatly said it will not do. The White House has said recently that funding would be kick-started in the United States.
The voluminous budget document will include economic forecasts and Trump's views on "mandatory entitlements" - big-ticket programs like Social Security and Medicare, which Trump vowed to protect on the campaign trail.
“There is no question this is a hard-power budget,” said Mulvaney. “It is not a soft-power budget.”
The budget requests $1.5 billion to detain and remove undocumented immigrants, and $314 million to hire 500 new Border Patrol officers and 1,000 new Immigration and
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by Tyler Durden
Mar 16, 2017 9:29 AM
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Today at 7am, Trump released his "skinny budget", his administration's first federal budget blueprint revealing the President's plan to dramatically reduce the size of the government. As previewed last night, the document calls for deep cuts at departments and agencies that would eliminate entire programs and slash the size of the federal workforce. It also proposes a $54 billion increase in defense spending, which the White House says will be offset by the other cuts.
“This is the ‘America First’ budget,” said White House budget director Mick Mulvaney, a former South Carolina congressman who made a name for himself as a spending hawk before Trump plucked him for his Cabinet, adding that “if he said it in the campaign, it’s in the budget.”
In a proposal with many losers, the Environmental Protection Agency and State Department stand out as targets for the biggest spending reductions. Funding would disappear altogether for 19 independent bodies that count on federal money for public broadcasting, the arts and regional issues from Alaska to Appalachia. Trump's budget outline is a bare-bones plan covering just "discretionary" spending for the 2018 fiscal year starting on Oct. 1. It is the first volley in what is expected to be an intense battle over spending in coming months in Congress, which holds the federal purse strings and seldom approves presidents' budget plans.
Trump wants to spend $54 billion more on defense, put a down payment on his border wall, and breathe life into a few other campaign promises. His initial budget outline does not incorporate his promise to pour $1 trillion into roads, bridges, airports and other infrastructure projects. The budget directs several agencies to shift resources toward fighting terrorism and cybercrime, enforcing sanctions, cracking down on illegal immigration and preventing government waste.
The White House has said the infrastructure plan is still to come.
That said, Congress controlled by Trump's fellow Republicans, is likely to reject some or many of his proposed cuts with some republicans calling the budget "dead on arrival." Some of the proposed changes, which Democrats will broadly oppose, have been targeted for decades by conservative Republicans. Moderate Republicans have already expressed unease with potential cuts to popular domestic programs such as home-heating subsidies, clean-water projects and job training.
Trump is willing to discuss priorities, said Mulvaney. "The president wants to spend more money on defense, more money securing the border, more money enforcing the laws, and more money on school choice, without adding to the deficit," Mulvaney told a small group of reporters during a preview on Wednesday. "If they have a different way to accomplish that, we are more than interested in talking to them," Mulvaney said.
The defense increases are matched by cuts to other programs so as to not increase the $488 billion federal deficit. Mulvaney acknowledged the proposal would likely result in significant cuts to the federal workforce. "You can’t drain the swamp and leave all the people in it," Mulvaney said.
A visual summary of the proposed budget changes is shown below, courtesy of Reuters:
The biggest losers:
Trump asked Congress to slash the EPA by $2.6 billion or more than 31 percent, and the State Department by more than 28 percent or $10.9 billion. Mulvaney said the "core functions" of those agencies would be preserved. Hit hard would be foreign aid, grants to multilateral development agencies like the World Bank and climate change programs at the United Nations.
Trump wants to get rid of more than 50 EPA programs, end funding for former Democratic President Barack Obama's signature Clean Power Plan aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions, and cut renewable energy research programs at the Energy Department. Regional programs to clean up the Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay would be sent to the chopping block.
Community development grants at the Housing Department - around since 1974 - were cut in Trump's budget, along with more than 20 Education Department programs, including some funding program for before- and after- school programs. Anti-poverty grants and a program that helps poor people pay their energy bills would be slashed, as well as a Labor Department program that helps low-income seniors find work.
Long reviled by conservatives, the Internal Revenue Service would get a $239 million cut, despite Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s request for more funding. The Education Department would receive $1.4 billion to invest in public charter schools and private schools, even as its overall budget is cut by 14 percent. But other numbers appear to contradict some of Trump’s top priorities. One of his campaign pledges was to work to cure diseases, but the National Institutes of Health will reportedly see $5.8 billion slashed from its budget.
Trump calls for a 13 percent cut to the Transportation Department, which would ostensibly play a big role in Trump’s promised infrastructure overhaul. That includes $500 million from the TIGER grant program, which provides funding for road and bridge projects.
Trump's rural base did not escape cuts. The White House proposed a 21 percent reduction to the Agriculture Department, cutting loans and grants for wastewater, reducing staff in county offices and ending a popular program that helps U.S. farmers donate crops for overseas food aid.
And the winners
White House officials looked at Trump's campaign speeches and "America First" pledges as they crunched the numbers, Mulvaney said. "We turned those policies into numbers," he said, explaining how the document mirrored pledges to spend more on the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal, veterans' health care, the FBI, and Justice Department efforts to fight drug dealers and violent crime.
The Department of Homeland Security would get a 6.8 percent increase, with more money for extra staff needed to catch, detain and deport illegal immigrants. Trump wants Congress to shell out $1.5 billion for the border wall with Mexico in the current fiscal year - enough for pilot projects to determine the best way to build it - and a further $2.6 billion in fiscal 2018, Mulvaney said.
The estimate of the full cost of the wall will be included in the full budget, expected in mid-May, which will project spending and revenues over 10 years. Trump has vowed Mexico will pay for the border wall, which the Mexican government has flatly said it will not do. The White House has said recently that funding would be kick-started in the United States.
The voluminous budget document will include economic forecasts and Trump's views on "mandatory entitlements" - big-ticket programs like Social Security and Medicare, which Trump vowed to protect on the campaign trail.
“There is no question this is a hard-power budget,” said Mulvaney. “It is not a soft-power budget.”
The budget requests $1.5 billion to detain and remove undocumented immigrants, and $314 million to hire 500 new Border Patrol officers and 1,000 new Immigration and
Customs Enforcement officers.[/FONT][FONT=lucida_granderegular]
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Steven Dennis @StevenTDennis
[h=1]Most endangered Senate Republican in 2018 not happy with Trump's plan to import nuclear waste into his state. [/h]Niels Lesniewski @nielslesniewskiDean Heller on the Trump budget request:"As has been stated in the past, Yucca is dead and this reckless proposal will not revive it."
[h=1]Most endangered Senate Republican in 2018 not happy with Trump's plan to import nuclear waste into his state. [/h]Niels Lesniewski @nielslesniewskiDean Heller on the Trump budget request:"As has been stated in the past, Yucca is dead and this reckless proposal will not revive it."
Libtards being libtards...
"FASCISM"
EXCLUSIVE: Nazi-Allied Group Claims Top Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka As Sworn MemberRead more: http://forward.com/news/national/36...aims-top-trump-aide-sebastian-gorka-as-sworn/
Ike Barinholtz @ikebarinholtz
[h=1]FINALLY a President with the courage to cut Meals on Wheels. Thank you @realDonaldTrump for telling moochers like this the free ride is OVER [/h]
[h=1]FINALLY a President with the courage to cut Meals on Wheels. Thank you @realDonaldTrump for telling moochers like this the free ride is OVER [/h]
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Trump’s NASA Budget Cancels Most Of Obama’s Legacy
ANDREW FOLLETT
President Donald Trump’s NASA budget eliminates much of what former President Barack Obama built in the space agency over the last eight years.
Trump’s budget cuts $102 million from the nearly $2 billion NASA spent in 2017 on earth science and global warming research. The White House also proposed cutting the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), which could have cost a total of $17.7 billion dollars by 2025.
The budget cuts four NASA satellite programs which were conducting global warming and environmental research. It also reduces the amount of money the space agency can spend on environmental science grants.
In total, Trump recommends a NASA budget of $19.1 billion, an 0.8 percent cut from 2017 levels.
“The Budget increases cooperation with industry through the use of public-private partnerships, focuses the Nation’s efforts on deep space exploration rather than Earth-centric research, and develops technologies that would help achieve US. space goals and benefit the economy,” states a budget summary.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/16/trumps-nasa-budget-cancels-most-of-obamas-legacy/#ixzz4bVS4PFxW
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Trump’s NASA Budget Cancels Most Of Obama’s Legacy
ANDREW FOLLETT
President Donald Trump’s NASA budget eliminates much of what former President Barack Obama built in the space agency over the last eight years.
Trump’s budget cuts $102 million from the nearly $2 billion NASA spent in 2017 on earth science and global warming research. The White House also proposed cutting the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), which could have cost a total of $17.7 billion dollars by 2025.
The budget cuts four NASA satellite programs which were conducting global warming and environmental research. It also reduces the amount of money the space agency can spend on environmental science grants.
In total, Trump recommends a NASA budget of $19.1 billion, an 0.8 percent cut from 2017 levels.
“The Budget increases cooperation with industry through the use of public-private partnerships, focuses the Nation’s efforts on deep space exploration rather than Earth-centric research, and develops technologies that would help achieve US. space goals and benefit the economy,” states a budget summary.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/16/trumps-nasa-budget-cancels-most-of-obamas-legacy/#ixzz4bVS4PFxW
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