- Aug 4, 2009
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Trump's budget reveals the GOP's priorities in all their hideous glory
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
yes, they hate anything decent
Blatant attack on the poor