Trumps Budget Hits Trumps Voters Hard

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MICHAEL TOMASKY

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/16/trump-s-budget-hits-trump-s-voters-hard.html

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Well, this budget is Trump’s. There’s a game of three-card monte being played about whether the health bill is Ryancare or Trumpcare or something else; but there’s only one president, and he proposes the budget. So this is Trump’s. And the right wing loves it. Remember all the hard-right folks who frowned upon Ryancare and Trump’s embrace of it? Well, this budget is turning those frowns upside down. It was barely 9 am when a statement praising the budget landed in my inbox from Heritage Action, the 501(c)(4) arm of the Heritage Foundation. A week ago, Heritage Action was apoplectic about health care.

It’s easy to see why they’re happy—big increases for defense and massive cuts to domestic programs. None of this is surprising, of course, in part because Trump’s budget director is Mick Mulvaney, a really right-wing former member of Congress who was confirmed for his current job on a 51-49 vote (John McCain joined all 48 Democrats, although for reasons of his own, not because Mulvaney is a radical extremist).

Mulvaney did the cable-news circuit mid-week to promote the budget, officially called the “America First” budget (yep, no one seems to bat an eye anymore at open allusions to past crypto-fascist groups). He singled out the usual weak sisters, the ones the Republicans have been trying to get rid of since Newt Gingrich’s time, like the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). And predictably, he contrasted these snooty enthusiasms of chardonnay-swillers along the coasts with the real Americans whom he and his boss so valorize.

“When you start looking at places that we reduce spending, one of the questions we asked was can we really continue to ask a coal miner in West Virginia or a single mom in Detroit to pay for these programs? The answer was no,” he said.


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1. so is Lockheed on the cuts list? nt

[Merlot]

2. No, you ask millionairs and billionairs to pay for these programs

You ask for corporations to pay their fair share into these programs

Most coal miners are out of work (from what I've heard, anyhow), and single moms already have a dependant tax deduction.


“When you start looking at places that we reduce spending, one of the questions we asked was can we really continue to ask a coal miner in West Virginia or a single mom in Detroit to pay for these programs? The answer was no,” he said.

[Achilleaze]

3. republican Comrade Pee45 brutally SUCKERED his voters