Trump Budget Gives His Base Just What He Promised

The first budget proposed by the Trump administration would cut $54 billion in funding to various segments of the federal government, including the Departments of Labor and Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency.

The budget also calls for 500 new border patrol agents and 1,000 new immigration and customs agents. White House decisions on mandatory spending – funding that goes to programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security and is required by law – are expected to come later this year. “Our community will be hit hard by the proposed elimination of help for households in immediate danger of being without heat and Community Development Block grants that support the production of affordable housing and the revitalization of our Main Streets”.

The State Department’s core programs face a $10 billion cut.

The Department of Veterans Affairs gets an additional $4.4 billion, a 5.9 percent increase.

Trump calls for the modernization of the Armed Forces, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force.

In answer to a press question, Mulvaney expounded, “the policy is that we’re ending federal involvement with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting“. The CPR provides funding for NPR, PBS and more than 1,000 affiliated stations and has always been a target of Republican ire. Authorized by the Older Americans Act, the program was created to provide training and employment assistance to those over the age of 55, unemployed and near the poverty level. Major themes absent from the budget include increases in infrastructure spending, a departure from Trump’s campaign promise to create a $1 trillion infrastructure program.

The White House released a budget blueprint Thursday that would cut the EPA’s funding by 31 percent.

In North Carolina one budget cut proposed by the Trump administration would have likely serious consequences: Universities in North Carolina have gotten hundred of millions of dollars in research money over the years through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that has funded life-changing medical/scientific research. This is according to reports that the spending plan calls for reducing the EPA’s budget by nearly a third and cutting about 20 percent of the agency’s staff.

The proposal is an early step in a lengthy budget process and it’s not clear to what degree Congress will back Trump’s priorities. The state received about $88 million from the federal government to fund the heating assistance program this fiscal year.

Fortunately, budgetary matters are not entirely up to Trump-Congress has to pass appropriations bills. “So I think it’s a cost benefit ratio”.

The Department of State, which faces a $10.9 billion cut that eliminates climate-change prevention programs, reduces money for United Nations peacekeeping and the World Bank, and reduces most cultural-exchange programs and foreign aid.

“While every part of the budget is important, discretionary spending is not a key driver of our growing debt”, Peterson wrote.

According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, Ohio served more than 400,000 households and doled out almost $90 million in assistance this past year.

The Trump budget makes significant cuts to diplomacy efforts. PEPFAR, which began under President George W. Bush, is widely regarded as exceptionally successful in the world of global health.