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Trump's budget reveals the GOP's priorities in all their hideous glory
The budget would do the following:
Now, combined with Republicans slashing taxes on billionaires and corporations we can see the Republican priorities.....Take from the poor and give to the rich
The budget would do the following:
- Spend $716 billion this year on the military
- Spend $18 billion over two years to build a border wall
- Cut $554 billion from Medicare over 10 years
- Cut $250 billion from Medicaid over 10 years
- Cut $214 billion from food stamps over 10 years
- Cut the EPA's budget by 34 percent
- Cut the Department of Housing and Urban Development budget by 14 percent, including eliminating the fund that pays for capital repairs to public housing
- Eliminate the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides funding to PBS and NPR
- Eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Eliminate the Legal Services Corporation, which provides legal help to poor Americans
- Eliminate the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which ensures that poor Americans don't freeze to death in the winter
- Cut funding for Amtrak in half
- Eliminate ARPA-E, which does cutting-edge research on energy technology
Now, combined with Republicans slashing taxes on billionaires and corporations we can see the Republican priorities.....Take from the poor and give to the rich