washingtonpost:washingtonpost:On Thursday, the Trump administration released a preliminary 2018 budg
washingtonpost:washingtonpost:On Thursday, the Trump administration released a preliminary 2018 budget proposal, which details many of the changes the president wants to make to the federal government’s spending. The proposal covers only discretionary, not mandatory, spending.Read more here: What gets cut in Trump’s budgetThis budget is dead on arrival because every president’s budget has been dead on arrival for decades because that’s simply not the way government goes through this process anymore, but at the very least it gives you an indication what they give a shit about and what not, and it’s telling they’re willing to eviscerate entire departments and kill some agencies entirely from sections that make up a relatively small part of the federal budget (the federal government is like 2/3rds welfare&military) to scrounge together enough pennies out of the budget to put into his chosen few areas. -- source link