Trump’s Proposed Budget Deals a Blow to California Schools

The spending plan would make a dent in the budgets of a number of departments, including cuts of 31 percent ($2.6 billion) to the Environmental Protection Agency, 29 percent ($10.9 billion) to the State Department, particularly for foreign aid, 16 percent ($12.6 billion) to the Department of Health and Human Services and 14 percent ($9.2 billion) to the Education Department. Under the President’s plan, NIH would receive only $25.9 billion, a funding level that hasn’t been seen since the early 2000s.

We listed a few of the science initiatives that could be impacted based on the information found in the President’s plan.

A senior UN Security Council diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity before the budget’s release, suggested that the US cuts could contribute to a perception that Washington’s role in the world was waning. The White House did not respond to Romper’s request for comment regarding how these cuts will affect children.

Other points of contention are likely to be calls to eliminate community development block grants, and cut billions of dollars for teacher training, after-school and summer programs and nearly $100 million from the Rural Business and Cooperative Service. Also facing cuts would be the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality which provides funding to boost the “quality, effectiveness, accessibility and cost effectiveness of healthcare”, according to its website. If enacted, the impact that Trump’s budget would have on kids would just be cruel.

Estimated Impact: More than a third of these cuts would affect the National Institutes of Health, according to another Washington Post report.

This was, of course, the idea. Former House Speaker and longtime critic of the bureaucracy Newt Gingrich echoed the sentiment.

Federal employee unions warned the budget would force the firing of many federal workers. “If you weave those together you understand what Trump is”. “As followers of Christ, it is our moral responsibility to urge you to support and protect the International Affairs Budget, and avoid disproportionate cuts to these vital programs”. With the intent to allow these funds to travel with students as well, the administration may be looking to offset the $2.4 billion cuts to teacher training programs and $1.2 billion cuts to after-school and summer enrichment programs.

The budget also calls for 500 new border patrol agents and 1,000 new immigration and customs agents.

“The President very clearly wants to send a message to our allies and our potential adversaries that this is a strong power administration”, said Mulvaney.

Of course, White House budgets are basically never accepted as they are-and Trump’s is unlikely to be the exception. He spent most of the day with a delegation of Ireland’s top political leaders, who visited Washington to celebrate the upcoming St. Patrick’s Day.

“It will be essentially dead on the arrival”, Hoyer said on “Squawk Box”, shortly after Trump’s proposal became public.

We’re not balancing the budget here.

For Republican Congressional leadership, Trump’s budget does not live up to his bellicose rhetoric. “He is following through on his promises”.

The State Department, whose role includes providing the diplomacy needed to keep us out of wars, will have 29 percent pared from its budget.