Health groups: Next cure may go undiscovered with Trump cuts

It was a Republican president, Richard Nixon, who founded the agency, and it is another Republican president who apparently wants to end the federal government’s role in protecting the environment.

But there’s little new news about it today.

There’s barely a peep in Trump’s budget about Medicare or Medicaid.

The budget unveiled by the Trump administration on Thursday would remake the United States – vastly expanding national defense but cutting or gutting dozens of programs that touch the lives of Americans every day.

Trump repeatedly claimed during the campaign that Mexico would pay for the wall when, in fact, US taxpayers will foot the bill. Please keep in mind that there are several other programs that are facing deep cuts as a result of President Trump’s budget proposal including the Meals on Wheels program and counter-terrorism funding for the city of NY.

Conservatives have plenty to like in the White House plan, with its 10 percent increase in military spending next year and beefed-up funding to help deport more illegal immigrants and build a wall on the border with Mexico.

Regarding rail, the budget calls for terminating federal support for Amtrak’s long-distance service; eliminating the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) discretionary grant program; and limiting funding for the Federal Transit Administration’s Capital Investment Program (New Starts) to projects with existing full funding grant agreements only. We ran a $587 billion deficit.

“Unfortunately, the Administration’s budget request is not enough to fix that damage and to rebuild the military as the President has discussed”, Thornberry said.

“In New Jersey, Trump’s budget will have serious consequences because he wants to cut at least $500 million in programs to the states”.

“While we have a responsibility to reduce our federal deficit, I am disappointed that numerous reductions and eliminations proposed in the president’s skinny budget are draconian, careless and counterproductive”, said Rep. Harold Rogers, R-Ky., a former chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.

Time flies, but there’s a lot on the plate – the Obamacare replacement proposal the big one. Aderholt, who represents one of the highest Trump voting congressional districts in the country, said he’s generally supportive of less federal spending but has concerns about cuts that would hurt several rural development programs.

Getting control of regulatory overreach can improve prospects for getting spending under control.

“In many cases, the Trump administration is simply sending the bill for these vital programs to cash-strapped state and local governments or even businesses themselves – who in turn would have to pass the costs onto taxpayers to keep these programs running”, said American Federation of Government Employees union national president J. David Cox Sr.

Rolling back federal red tape and over-regulation can spur dynamic growth, and that could lessen deficits (and future debt) indirectly. That’s in addition to dramatic cuts in USA -led health, development and climate change initiatives that will require other donors to fill the gaps. Lawmakers will have the final say on Trump’s proposal in the arduous budget process, and numerous cuts will be deemed dead on arrival. It increases spending on the military and border security.

That amounts to 20 percent of the agency’s current workforce of 15,000. This is unusual, according to The Washington Post, particularly because the entitlement programs now cost about $1 trillion and are considered mandatory.

Law enforcement agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation would be spared. Two of the counties that make up the sprawling Fort Bragg delivered more than 60 percent of its votes for Trump.

Also important and highly complementary to an effort such as this is Sen.

Despite the built-in obstacles, everyone interviewed for this story saw potential in Trump’s executive order, if handled well. It also incorporates the guidance documents, bulletins, notices, circulars, memoranda, manuals agencies issue.

In a letter to congressional leaders, more than 100 evangelical and other faith leaders wrote, “As people of faith, we can not turn our back on those in desperate need”.

The pessimistic view is that Congress will restore some (but not all) of the NIH money and nod the rest of the cuts through.

Budget Director Mulvaney acknowledged that passing the cuts could be an uphill struggle and said the administration would negotiate.