Trump’s Modest Budget Cuts Mean Nothing If He Won’t Touch Rampant Entitlements
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Trump’s Modest Budget Cuts Mean Nothing If He Won’t Touch Rampant Entitlements
The admin likely wished to avoid political attacks about the GOP ‘cutting’ Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security before the midterms.
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Would your family try to balance the books without considering the cost of the mortgage, college education, or taxes? Most people wouldn’t allocate household expenses like that, not least because any such budget wouldn’t stay balanced for long.
That analogy resembles the “budget” the Trump administration delivered to Congress on April 3. Not only did the document come two months late — federal law requires the president to submit his budget on the first Monday in February — but it also came incomplete, ignoring some of the largest and fastest-growing elements of the federal fisc.
Officially, the budget document clocked in at 92 pages. But 22 of those pages consist of the title page and blank pages between the document’s (very short) chapters and sections. Take out things like the table of contents and list of contributors, and the budget shrinks even further to about 60 or so........
