Trump Budget Director Calls President’s Budget “Compassionate”

“Our lack of investment in infrastructure has consequences both in terms of safety and our ability to compete in the global economy”, Moran said the day before the budget’s release. “The answer was no”, Mulvaney said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”.

Brianna Landon, spokeswoman for the Kansas Department of Transportation, said that the agency has not planned or budgeted any future projects based on future TIGER grant funding. Military spending would increase by nine percent to $54bn, while 18 other agencies will experience budgets cuts.

Congress will have a lot to say about this plan in the coming weeks.

President Trump intends to roll out his budget blueprint Thursday – and it will include a 31 percent reduction to the Environmental Protection Agency and a 28 percent cut to the State Department.

Eliminated: There would be no more funding for long-distance Amtrak trains; federal funds would be focused on Amtrak’s regional service, like in the Northeast Corridor.

Eliminated: International climate change programs run by the State Department and the EPA would end, including payments the US had pledged to make to United Nations climate efforts. “It’s disgraceful and risky that Trump and Mulvaney refuse to give our government the resources to tackle the critical mission at hand”.

Nationally, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program alone represents $3.4 billion. “So we save the taxpayers money, no question about it”.

“President Trump and OBM Director Mick Mulvaney are showing the political will to take the axe to many bloated and unnecessary programs”.

“The president is absolutely going to keep the promises he made on the campaign trail”, Mulvaney added during a press conference on Thursday.

Our $20 trillion national debt is a crisis, not just for the Nation, but for every citizen. “We’re not spending money on that”.

Mulvaney said spending that impacts programs such as Social Security and Medicare was not addressed in this blueprint “because that’s not what this budget is”.

That’s the same argument anti-poverty groups will take to Capitol Hill.

President Bush “would often cave” to Democratic pressure that increases to defense spending have to be matched in domestic programs, Edwards said.

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President Trump’s budget shifts the burden off of the wealthy and special interests and puts it on the backs of the middle class and the many hardworking families trying to get there.

The budget blueprint still has to go through a long review process that includes input from Congress, but science advocates are already voicing concern.

SHERYL BRAXTON: We have more mold issues, garbage issues, a water issue with lead. Severe cuts will come from programs that help poor seniors, military children, education, health and more.

FESSLER: Sunia Zaterman runs the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities.

The proposed 2018 budget, Reuters reported, is aimed at cutting away the regulations Trump believes are hurting US businesses, namely in the oil and coal industries.

DAN PRUETT: I can’t understand why something like that would be cut. He says the government’s spent billions of dollars with little to show for it. “In fact, it’s something we don’t think we can defend anymore”. “That’s not going to happen with us”. How much is what lawmakers will start debating soon.