The Trump Budget

Robert · Aug 2, 2017

To kick this into high gear. Does this make you very very angry? Trump promised to slash the budget. But Congress ignored his cuts and gave us raises. And Trump agreed with them. This ought to make the Democrats angry except they were part and parcel of the increases. Do you notice the hate drooling from the media's mouths? Well ge no.

This must end. Do you agree.

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The Trump Budget

John Stossel
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Posted: Aug 02, 2017 12:20 AM

Remember President Trump's "terrible" budget cuts?

"Promises Little but Pain," warned The New York Times.

"Harsh and shortsighted," cried The Washington Post.

Then Congress passed a budget. President Trump signed it. Do you notice the "pain"?

I follow the news closely, but until I researched this column, I didn't know that Congress actually raised spending on the very agencies Trump wanted to cut.

Trump called for a $4.7 billion dollar cut to the Agriculture Department. Congress increased the department's appropriation by $12.8 billion.

He called for a $15 billion cut to Health and Human Services. Congress instead gave them $2.8 billion more.

Trump wanted a $6.2 billion cut to Housing and Urban Development. Congress gave HUD a half-billion-dollar increase.

Trump wanted the Commerce Department's budget cut by $1.4 billion. Congress made no cut.

And so on.

Why wasn't that news? Because in Washington, and in the media's eyes, spending increases are expected. And cuts are always "terrible."

America continues on its road to bankruptcy.

What will those departments do with their new money?

The Agriculture Department says its mission is to "promote agricultural production that better nourishes Americans." Politicians claim we need the Department to guarantee an adequate food supply.

Nonsense.

Because of the free market, agricultural entrepreneurs provide plenty of food. Fruit and vegetable farmers rarely get subsidies, but there are ample supplies of fruits and vegetables.

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We don't need an Agriculture Department any more than we need a Hollywood movie department or iPhone department.

Most of what the Department does is corporate welfare. America's richest corn and grain farmers collect most of the money.

Politicians eagerly give money to people who visit their offices and pour out tales of need.

Corn and grain farmers visit and whine because they have millions of dollars at stake.

You don't visit because each subsidy costs you just a few bucks.

So the corporate welfare continues.

Members of Congress might stop the wasteful spending if they spent their own money. But they don't. They spend ours.

Congress ignored Trump's request to cut the Commerce Department, too.

Commerce's biggest program is NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA pushes climate change alarmism, producing PSAs that warn Arctic ice is "thinning at an alarming rate!"

If that's a serious problem, NOAA's spending won't stop it. NOAA's bureaucrats got caught buying a $300,000 yacht -- and using it to go fishing.

The Department says what they do is "critical." They fund "centers in every state that consult with companies facing technological problems."

Government is good at fixing tech problems? News to me.

The Department claims "every dollar of federal investment ... generates around $30" because each "$2,400 investment" creates a job.

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Mr_Truth · Aug 5, 2017

traitor Trump is the responsible for all this:

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

IMPEACH TRUMP!

wgabrie · Aug 8, 2017

If I were President I would want there to be cuts in the budget, to test what programs are working, but I would only cut them by 0.2 billion, or just freeze spending levels to last year's budget.

CourtJester · Aug 20, 2017

Trump's budget does exactly what it was expected to do. It make the rich much richer, screws the middle class, and increases the deficit. What's not to like.

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