Trump Administration Ready to Dramatically Cut Government Spending


As Trump prepares to take the reins of power from President Obama, his administration has unveiled its plans to cut government waste and bring spending to acceptable levels. If the latest reports are anything to go by, the changes the new White House will seek are some of the most dramatic that anyone has seen in recent memory, indicating that Trump is ready to depart from the failed tax and spend methods of his predecessor:

“The departments of Commerce and Energy would see major reductions in funding, with programs under their jurisdiction either being eliminated or transferred to other agencies. The departments of Transportation, Justice and State would see significant cuts and program eliminations.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting would be privatized, while the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities would be eliminated entirely.Overall, the blueprint being used by Trump’s team would reduce federal spending by $10.5 trillion over 10 years.

The proposed cuts hew closely to a blueprint published last year by the conservative Heritage Foundation, a think tank that has helped staff the Trump transition.

Similar proposals have in the past won support from Republicans in the House and Senate, who believe they have an opportunity to truly tackle spending after years of warnings about the rising debt.

Many of the specific cuts were included in the 2017 budget adopted by the conservative Republican Study Committee (RSC), a caucus that represents a majority of House Republicans. The RSC budget plan would reduce federal spending by $8.6 trillion over the next decade.

Two members of Trump’s transition team are discussing the cuts at the White House budget office: Russ Vought, a former aide to Vice President-elect Mike Pence and the former executive director of the RSC, and John Gray, who previously worked for Pence, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) when Ryan headed the House Budget Committee.

Vought and Gray, who both worked for the Heritage Foundation, are laying the groundwork for the so-called skinny budget — a 175- to 200-page document that will spell out the main priorities of the incoming Trump administration, along with summary tables. That document is expected to come out within 45 days of Trump taking office.”

Source: The Hill


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  1. Janice Evans

    Thank you,
    President Donald J Trump

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  2. Edward Windsor

    that was quit-still great

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  3. Janice Evans

    EPA just got a wake-up call
    Other Nonsense Agencies The American Taxpayer’s
    Have to Foot the Bill For!
    See that is how Taxpayer’s will get Help from Trump.

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  5. Dubie Willard

    Yeah your so full of s**t

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  6. Lynn Moore

    President Trump is faced with a cesspool, not a swamp. The corruption is in every single federal department, every single federal agency and it is huge monster. He will not be able to fix in a day what we have allowed to happen over decades of neglecting our duty as citizens to hold the government accountable. We can all start now and do whatever is legal to do. We can also ask OUR President what we can do to help him. It is past time. We didn’t listen to JFK, we best start now.

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