Trump’s Budget Cuts to the Social Safety Net Are Greater Than Reagan’s

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White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney declared last week, “We are not going to measure compassion by the number of programs or the people on them” in defending the more draconian social spending cuts in President Trump’s fiscal 2018 budget. A new analysis by the liberal-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has charged the Trump administration with plumbing historic depths by proposing to slash health care for low and moderate income people and cut all programs in the social safety net. While seeking major increases in spending on defense, veterans’ affairs, homeland security, construction of a wall along the southern border with Mexico along with a major tax cut, Trump’s budget would cut $4.3 trillion of domestic discretionary and mandatory spending through 2027 in a bid to wipe out the deficit.

June 01, 2017 at 11:50PM

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