The White House has released its 2019 budget.

[Aegon]

Y I K E S

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/373419...019-budget

President Trump has unveiled his budget proposal for 2019, which calls for $1.7 trillion in cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and other social programs, while significantly increasing defense spending and setting aside money for the border wall.

[vulcanlogician]

... and setting aside money for the border wall.

You mean Mexico is setting aside money for the border wall--not us, right?

[Minimalist]

But what a target this gives the Dems for the mid-terms.

[Aegon]

Also RIP PBS

[Jackalope]

This is going to go about as far as the 2018 White House budget.

This one gets a lot of incumbents unelected. I doubt there will be sufficient enthusiasm for deep cuts to entitlements.

[Jackalope]

Also - so much for tax cuts paying for themselves. Obviously, it was always a lie, but now it's very clear that not even the white house believed their own bullshit.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

Y I K E S

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/373419...019-budget

President Trump has unveiled his budget proposal for 2019, which calls for $1.7 trillion in cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and other social programs, while significantly increasing defense spending and setting aside money for the border wall.

According to the KKK'er's Trump's logic social programs must be cut because black people benefit from them.  He's going to screw over federal employees because he wants to screw the black ones like Woodrow Wilson did.

[Minimalist]

Y I K E S

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/373419...019-budget

President Trump has unveiled his budget proposal for 2019, which calls for $1.7 trillion in cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and other social programs, while significantly increasing defense spending and setting aside money for the border wall.

If the WLB and his nazi henchmen get their way we'll have an over-priced military to defend a country which is not worth defending.  Except it is not about "defense" at all.  It's about offense.  We are always fucking with people.

[Amarok]

Of course will have a least one ultra right nut on this thread screaming ." But they should have to earn it" or " I got mine fuck everyone else " or even the delusion that they don't indirectly benefit from living in a society that has social programs. Or we might even get some lame attempt at bashing countries with social programs while ignoring Americans low ranking on social index's .

[vorlon13]

Can we rule out a war for conquest and profit ?