Popular Domestic Programs Face Ax Under First Trump Budget

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WASHINGTON — The White House budget office has drafted a hit list of programs that President Trump could eliminate to trim domestic spending, including longstanding conservative targets like the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Legal Services Corporation, AmeriCorps and the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities.

Work on the first Trump administration budget has been delayed as the budget office awaited Senate confirmation of former Representative Mick Mulvaney, a spending hard-liner, as budget director. Now that he is in place, his office is ready to move ahead with a list of nine programs to eliminate, an opening salvo in the Trump administration’s effort to reorder the government and increase spending on defense and infrastructure.

Most of the programs cost under $500 million annually, a pittance for a government that is projected to spend about $4 trillion this year. And a few are surprising, even though most if not all have been perennial targets for conservatives.


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/us/politics/trump-program-eliminations-white-house-budget-office.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

[DFW]

1. All things Trump has barely heard of and has no personal use for.

In his mind, if he has no use for them, then why should anyone else?

[KT2000]

2. Legal Services Corp.

there is no justice for those without money. This organization has already been cut back so much and now they want it gone.

[Cha]

3. Get the big ugly trumpaxe.. big dictator axe with the assholes

in Congress.

Certainly there are some repub voters who like the arts?

[democratisphere]

4. Pure evil destroying programs for the greater good.

Meanwhile we spend upwards of $180 Million flying the drumpf family all over creation.