Check this out!....Heres Whats in the Budget Bill Nobodys Bothered to Read👍🏼

[spanone]

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President Donald Trump’s budget proposals have taken a hatchet to President Barack Obama’s top priorities. They’ve called for deep cuts in renewable energy, medical research and nonmilitary spending in general. They’ve eliminated TIGER, a grant program for innovative transportation projects created by Obama’s stimulus bill; ARPA-E, an energy research agency launched by the stimulus; and CDBG, a community development program many Republicans consider an urban slush fund.

Now the Republicans who control Congress have passed a $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill, and it not only protects Obama’s priorities, it expands them. It does far less for Trump’s stated priorities, and while his administration endorsed the bill Thursday, he tweeted a veto threat and expressed some apparent buyer’s remorse Friday after it passed.

The omnibus—Capitol Hill jargon for a single spending bill that funds most government functions—does not kill any of the programs or agencies Trump’s budget proposed to kill; it triples funding for TIGER, nearly doubles CDBG, and boosts ARPA-E’s budget by 16 percent. Trump wanted to slash the Energy Department’s renewables budget 65 percent; instead, Congress boosted it 14 percent. Trump proposed to keep nonmilitary spending $54 billion below the congressional budget cap; the omnibus spends right up to the cap, a $63 billion increase from last year.

This is why the conservative National Review denounced the omnibus as “the sort of legislation that would have been right at home in the Obama administration,” while Democratic congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer gloated in a statement that its “job-creating, life-saving investments stand in sharp contrast to the Trump budget.” It basically extends the fiscal status quo that has prevailed since the start of Obama’s second term—plus a sizable chunk of new deficit spending—even though Republicans now control the legislative and executive branches.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/23/heres-whats-in-the-budget-bill-nobodys-bothered-to-read-217701

[MadCrow]

1. DoesTrump know this?

I'd love to see a video of his reaction!

[spanone]

2. Shhh

[Blue_true]

9. Just send him a big box of cheeseburgers.

That will keep him busy for a while.

[ProudLib72]

3. Yes, this is why Coulter nearly had a heart attack

And, personally, I am now glad for her big mouth. She is spreading the news among the RW: "tRump is a sellout...BIGLY!"

[Angry Dragon]

4. Nice, as far as i can see

[spanone]

5. More....

Not only won’t it build his wall—much less get Mexico to pay for it—it won’t cut funding for “sanctuary cities” or add new detention beds for undocumented immigrants. It won’t eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities or the Legal Services Corporation, and actually provided modest funding increases for all three agencies. It won’t fund Trump administration proposals to expand school choice or replace food stamps with home-delivered boxes of food.

The omnibus did not adopt Trump’s proposed cuts to Pell Grants for low-income students, Head Start for low-income children, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the National Institutes of Health, which all got more money than they got last year. The Environmental Protection Agency, which would have lost nearly a third of its budget if Trump had his way, was level-funded.

[Angry Dragon]

7. all good

anything bad in it??

[spanone]

10. ...

. The omnibus did not include the new protections they are seeking for undocumented Dreamers who came to America as kids, or new funding they want for stabilizing the Obamacare exchanges. But considering the balance of power in Congress, they got quite a lot they wanted that Trump didn’t want—including full funding for the 2020 census, money for states to bolster their election security and the FBI to fight Russian cyberattacks, and language blocking a proposed Trump administration rule that would have allowed employers to pocket tips earned by their workers. They insisted on expanding a tax credit for low-income housing development in exchange for allowing Republicans to fix a technical glitch in the recent tax bill. And they won a modest strengthening of gun background checks and a rollback of a ban on gun violence research by the CDC without having to accept a provision requiring states to honor concealed carry permits; conservative members of the House Freedom Caucus claimed GOP leaders had promised that provision would be part of the deal.

[Angry Dragon]

11. so far so good

[Matthew28]

6. Even most

Republican senators and congressmen understand that cutting these things will hurt America. Their base is retarded and wants to destroy this country and this is surely to anger them. To hell with them.

This will help the democrats win big later this year!!! Hopefully big increases in science funding, educational funding and single payer is yet to come!

[SunSeeker]

8. The only reason it's deficit spending is because of GOP tax cuts for the rich.

Otherwise, it just continues most of Obama's programs that existed when Trump took office. The GOP knows those programs are what got us out of the Great Recession, and have consistently created jobs every year since then. They also know this is an election year and the last thing they want to do is kill jobs by enacting Trump's crazy budget.

[BigmanPigman]

12. I heard this on the news when I was making my sign yesterday

and could NOT believe my ears! As I went through my old signs (border wall, DACA, etc.) I was so happy (almost as happy as Schumer I suppose). There are even more Russian sanctions snuck in their anonymously. We still have to wait and see if he waits 6 months to enact them like the last sanctions bill which Congress overwhelmingly passed and he reluctantly signed.

[cilla4progress]

13. Awesome.

Great to have some good news once in awhile!

[Wellstone ruled]

14. Yup,Chuck and Nancy Rolled ol Donnie bigly.

Even the Tea Billies got rolled. The Rethugs knew they had do what ever it took to get this past even if it meant having the Dems basically run the table. Talk about not being able to Govern. He he.

[spanone]

16. trump has no idea what he's doing. ZERO

[Wellstone ruled]

17. He is one Ignorant person.

If it was not for his Lawyers and Accountants,there would not be a Trump Sign anywhere on this Planet.

Maddoff had his Ponzi Scheme,Trump is running a similiar one,only it smells like Check Kiting.

[Cha]

15. How did this miracle happen!?