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    Republicans voice opposition to Trump's budget: 'Dead on arrival'

    Republicans voice opposition to Trump's budget: 'Dead on arrival'
    US news
    5-23-17
    Lauren Gambino
    theguardian.com

    Donald Trump’s proposal to reduce spending by $3.6tn, mostly by slashing antipoverty programs that provide social safety nets for the poor, ran into bipartisan opposition on Capitol Hill, where a number of Republican lawmakers rejected the cuts as “draconian” and “nonstarters”.

    The president’s plan recommends $616bn in cuts to Medicaid, the government insurance programme for the poorest and many disabled Americans, while increasing border security spending by $2.6bn – including $1.6bn to begin construction on a wall along the US-Mexico border.

    Millions of people stand to lose Medicaid access, alongside cuts to welfare and food stamps, under a proposed budget that still has numerous hurdles to jump

    While fiscal conservatives welcomed the proposal, which aims to balance the budget by 2027, Republicans raised concerns that the plan would slice too deeply into programs that provide poor Americans access to healthcare, food stamps and student loans, setting the stage for a showdown over budget priorities.

    “The cuts are draconian,” Kentucky representative Harold Rogers, a powerful member of the House Appropriations Committee, said of the proposed cuts to Medicaid.

    Representative Mark Meadows, the chairman of the arch-conservative Freedom Caucus, praised the budget as “conservative” and said the White House presented a plan that “fundamentally could be implemented”. Though Meadows said he was encouraged by budget reductions to welfare programs, he could not get behind stripping funding from Meals on Wheels, a program that provides meal assistance for senior citizens that the president’s budget chief, Mick Mulvaney, dismissed in March as “just not showing any results”.

    Arizona senator John McCain called the proposal “dead on arrival” in a statement, and knocked the $603m defense budget request “inadequate to the challenges we face”.

    Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell told reporters, “The president’s budget, as we all know, is a recommendation. We’ll be taking into account what the president is recommending but it will not be determinative in every respect.”

    Trump’s package of spending cuts and tax breaks assumes an economic growth rate of 3%, which many analysts have dismissed as improbable. The Congressional Budget Office forecast under current policy is 1.9%.

    Presidential budgets are wish lists the White House sends to Congress. There was never a chance it would pass through untouched.

    “Clearly Congress will take that budget, and then work on our own budget, which is the case every single year, but at least we now have common objectives,” House Speaker Paul Ryan told reporters.

    Rather than criticize the budget, the Wisconsin conservative sought to paint a rosier picture, insisting that there were elements of the proposal that all Republicans could get behind.

    “Here’s what I’m happy about – we finally have a president who’s willing to actually balance the budget,” Ryan said. “The last president never proposed, let alone tried, to balance the budget.”

    The White House’s proposal, full of cuts to major programs, aims to balance the federal budget in a decade – benefitting the rich as it clobbers the poor

    Democrats were fiercely critical of the plan, which they said would hit hardest the people who helped elevate Trump to the White House.

    “The Trump budget exists somewhere over the rainbow, where the dreams of Mick Mulvaney, Paul Ryan and the Koch brothers really do come true,” Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer told reporters. “Of course, these dreams are a nightmare for the average working American.”

    Senator Bernie Sanders recalled Trump’s campaign promises, saying: “Sadly, this budget exposes all of that verbiage for what it really was – just cheap and dishonest campaign rhetoric that was meant to get votes. Nothing more than that,” the Vermont Independent said.

    Asked if there was any element of the budget that Democrats could cooperate on, Sanders conceded that the $25bn proposal to provide six weeks of paid leave for mothers and fathers after the birth or adoption of a child is a “good start” if “inadequate”.
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    The Rethuglicons (well, the smart ones) see the writing the wall knowing if this budget passes, they are gone in 2018. By gone I mean 80% of this sick and toxic party. No questions asked. And no one will miss them.
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    Between gerrymandering, Shittizens United propaganda dominating the media message, Diebold, and the Kristopher K. Kobach voter suppression database, there are a lot of roadblocks to a change in Congressional majority.

    And even after all that, the clueless DNC "leadership" seems determined to run another round of the same shittty, pathetic, Republican "lite" candidates who lost 2010, 2014, and 2016 for them.

    Montana's race today is more signficant than one would expect from such a low populated state. If Rob Quist wins this state, then the so-called Democratic party had better start paying attention to the message that wins and the (lack of) message that's already lost them nearly 1000 seats.

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    This budget is the death of them.

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    ....Republicans raised concerns that the plan would slice too deeply into programs that provide poor Americans access to healthcare, food stamps and student loans, setting the stage for a showdown over budget priorities.
    Not only the above, but those social entitlement programs add a lot to the economy as well and are one of the most direct ways to infuse cash into the consumer economy, no matter how much those faux-libertarian morons don't want to admit it...
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    Right wingers are chronically unable to know the difference between "spending" and "investment". Every dollar that goes into the "safety net" goes back into the economy, whether it's somebody buying food with their SNAP card, keeping the lights on with their Social Security check, or staying healthy enough to work with whatever form of health care subsidy. These qualify as "investments" by the government.

    Tax cuts for the rich - who rarely pay taxes as it is - end up in whatever offshore tax havens they stash their money in. Sending billions of dollars offshore is not an investment, it's flushing money down a solid gold toilet.

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    Since these Rethuglicons have become more and more violent I applied for a conceal permit today. With all the fees, background checks, and Sheriff regulations they are @$170 for five years. Money well spent in these day of Trump

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kristy View Post
    Since these Rethuglicons have become more and more violent I applied for a conceal permit today. With all the fees, background checks, and Sheriff regulations they are @$170 for five years. Money well spent in these day of Trump
    They don't give concealed weapon permits to drug addicts. DENIED!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kristy View Post
    Since these Rethuglicons have become more and more violent I applied for a conceal permit today. With all the fees, background checks, and Sheriff regulations they are @$170 for five years. Money well spent in these day of Trump
    Thank God! Save us from the Jews!!!!

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    Who is going to save us from fucktards like you?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Von Halen View Post
    They don't give concealed weapon permits to drug addicts. DENIED!

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    Even better because you cretins are so fucking stupid

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