Trump’s budget puts war first, and Americans last 

President Trump’s new budget proposal exposes the emptiness of his claims to put Americans first. 

Trump revealed the worldview underlying his budget in remarks at a luncheon that was supposed to be private but was accidentally released by the White House. “It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things,” Trump said. “They can do it on a state basis. You can’t do it on a federal. We have to take care of one thing: military protection.” 

Here’s the bottom line: To pay for an outrageous 44 percent increase in military spending, Trump is proposing big cuts in everything from K-12 and higher education to medical and scientific research, the National Parks, renewable energy and infrastructure projects and more. Just listing all the cuts would take up this whole column.  

The New Republic highlighted ways Trump’s budget would take “a sledgehammer” to the working class — including new moms trying to buy food, families with moderate incomes trying to buy homes and small businesses owners serving rural communities. Trump wants to completely do away with a long-standing program that helps elderly and disabled people on fixed incomes pay their heating and energy bills. 

If Trump gets his way, the government will pull way back on helping people afford housing, while spending billions to create concentration camps for 100,000 adults and 30,000 families.  

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