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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPopular Domestic Programs Face Ax Under First Trump Budget
Former Representative Mick Mulvaney, a spending hard-liner, was confirmed as White House budget director on Thursday.
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 administrations 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.
Mr. Trump has spoken volubly about the nations drug problems, yet the list includes the White Houses Office of National Drug Control Policy, which dispenses grants to reduce drug use and drug trafficking. And despite Mr. Trumps vocal promotion of American exports, the list includes the Export-Import Bank, which has guaranteed loans to foreign customers of American companies since the 1930s.
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 administrations 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.
Mr. Trump has spoken volubly about the nations drug problems, yet the list includes the White Houses Office of National Drug Control Policy, which dispenses grants to reduce drug use and drug trafficking. And despite Mr. Trumps vocal promotion of American exports, the list includes the Export-Import Bank, which has guaranteed loans to foreign customers of American companies since the 1930s.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/us/politics/trump-program-eliminations-white-house-budget-office.html?_r=0
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Popular Domestic Programs Face Ax Under First Trump Budget (Original Post)
spanone
Feb 2017
OP
Yes, there should be a formal budget line that funds the billions in Trumpy's family expenses.
Eyeball_Kid
Feb 2017
#3
marybourg
(12,620 posts)1. Leaves more money to support the tRump extended family
in the manner to which it is accustomed.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,430 posts)3. Yes, there should be a formal budget line that funds the billions in Trumpy's family expenses.
Let's debate THAT line in the GOP Congress!
procon
(15,805 posts)2. Freeing up money to be diverted into corporate welfare gifts and
giveaways for his wealthy pals.