Trumps Broken Promises
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Politics May 23 2017, 5:35 pm ET
Donald Trump’s Budget Breaks These 7 Campaign Promises
by Jane C. Timm
When the White House officially unveiled its 2018 budget Tuesday, President Donald Trump's budget director took pains to insist that the blueprint represents campaign promises kept.
Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said that the president is making good on his vow to save Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, among other things, and said that they are not kicking anyone off who needs the programs.
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Yet deep cuts to many aspects of the American safety net indicate otherwise.
Here's where the president's proposal breaks his promises — and at times his own self-proposed contract — to voters.
Broken Promise #1: Trump vowed not to cut Medicaid
Trump's budget would cut Medicaid by a lot, despite the president telling the Daily Signal days before launching his White House bid, "I'm not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and I'm not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid."
The administration proposes reducing spending on Medicaid programs by more than $600 billion over the next decade, a massive cut that appears to go on top of $839 billion in Medicaid cuts included in the House health care bill Trump is supporting.
Mulvaney insists that the proposed reduction in spending isn't a cut — it's simply growing less than the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office expects the needs of the program to be. "There are no Medicaid cuts in terms of what normal human beings would call cuts, we are not spending less money than we did the year before," Mulvaney said.
Broken Promise #2: Trump said he wouldn't cut Social Security
Trump's budget proposes slashing the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), a $31.4 billion change to the program that pays monthly benefits to over 10 million disabled individuals under the retirement age.
Mulvaney argued that SSDI isn't "what most people would consider to be Social Security" and said he would "hope" less people receive the program once they remove individuals who "should not" be getting it. It's unclear how the administration determined there is that much fraud in the system.
Broken Promise #3: Trump said he'd fully fund the border wall
The president promised to fully fund a border wall, with plans to make Mexico pay for it later, in his "Contract With the American Voter." The president's budget would allocate $2.6 billion for planning, designing, and constructing the border wall and its surrounding securities, but Republican leaders estimate the wall could cost as much as $15 billion.
"While we did not get as much money as we wanted for 2017 omnibus we did get a lot," Mulvaney said. "We are going to continue to press on."
Broken Promise #4: Trump promised to cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities
This is another contract promise. Trump's administration has tried to restrict funding to so-called "sanctuary" cities — jurisdiction that don't enforce federal immigration priorities and cooperate fully with federal authorities — but their efforts were halted by the courts.
This budget doesn't include any kind of limit on federal funding, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions narrowed the scope of Trump's executive order on the issue in a memo Monday.
Broken Promise #5: Trump said he would increase funding for treatment of PTSD
Trump's budget would increase funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs, but the budget proposal doesn't appear to focus money on PTSD or mental health issues.
It would, however, slash $3.2 billion from the "individual unemployability" benefit, which the budget says will be "modernized." The program allows the VA to more fully compensate disabled veterans, including those with PTSD, whose di
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Trump said: My bill protects people with preexisting conditions.
Congressional Budget Office says: No, it doesn’t.
www.vox.com/2017/5/24/15687520/trump-ahca-preexisting-condition-cbo-sc
ore-health-care
Greg Gianforte is running for the House seat in Montana left open when Ryan Zinke was named Secretary of the Interior. It turns out he really, really doesn't like being asked what he thinks of the Congressional Budget Office's score of Trump's health care bill. In case the video gets deleted, the Republican broke the reporter's glasses, then told him to get out.
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Have you found a copy of the Trump Budget as released yesterday? I could not find an online copy last night.
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Quote:Here: www.npr.org/2017/05/23/529713148/white-house-budget-for-2018-read-the-
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Have you found a copy of the Trump Budget as released yesterday? I could not find an online copy last night.
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Download: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3728848/White-House-Budget-
For-FY2018.pdf
I read Trump's budget with an expert. His take: it's based on phony assumptions.
There are some decent ideas here, but the numbers don’t add up.
www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/24/15682536/donald-trump-budget
-mulvaney-marc-goldwein-interview
They've been talking about this tax reform for a month, but there's actually less detail about tax reform in this budget than there was in their one pager they released a month ago. When you say you're going to have one of the biggest tax cuts in history and then you don't include that within your budget, it makes it a lot easier to achieve revenue neutrality.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Greg Gianforte is running for the House seat in Montana left open when Ryan Zinke was named Secretary of the Interior. It turns out he really, really doesn't like being asked what he thinks of the Congressional Budget Office's score of Trump's health care bill. In case the video gets deleted, the Republican broke the reporter's glasses, then told him to get out.
Imagine if a reporter had body slammed Ted Cruz?
There are bigger stories for sure, but this is a good tell in terms of the heat and frustration the GOP must be feeling with these repeated failed attempts from their largely worthless leader. They're starting to crack.
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There are many thousands of towns and communities that relies or relied on one form of industry. Everything else that supports a town or community is spawned into existence because of that industry. Outsourcing and digital advancements have been sucking the life source out of theses places. Anger and protectionism is the result.
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Quote:What is driving Trump and Republican Congress crazy are the numbers. The most recent modification to Trumpcare increases the number of people covered by a million. In exchange, government spending increases by $218 billion over a 10-year period — $218,000 per additional insured person. $21,800 per year. That’s a lot of money and completely out of line with what insurance cost before Trump stuck his stubby fingers into Trumpcare.
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There are bigger stories for sure, but this is a good tell in terms of the heat and frustration the GOP must be feeling with these repeated failed attempts from their largely worthless leader. They're starting to crack.
It is something that Republicans seem incapable of admitting: When it comes to health insurance, market-oriented solutions are the most expensive option.
www.vox.com/health-care/2017/5/25/15688408/government-insurance-is-che
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:Republicans don't understand the concept of a Ghost Town: when the veins of silver are all gone in the local mine, it is time to abandon the town. When the trees have been cut down and the sawmill closes, it is time to abandon the town. When people sell their horses to the slaughter house and buy cars and the horse-drawn buggy factory that employs everybody closes, leave town.
Originally posted by THGRRI:
There are many thousands of towns and communities that relies or relied on one form of industry. Everything else that supports a town or community is spawned into existence because of that industry. Outsourcing and digital advancements have been sucking the life source out of theses places. Anger and protectionism is the result.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Appeals court deals blow to Trump administration travel ban
President Donald Trump's revised travel ban "speaks with vague words of national security, but in context drips with religious intolerance, animus and discrimination," a federal appeals court said Thursday in ruling against the ban that targets six Muslim-majority countries.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that blocks the Republican administration from temporarily suspending new visas for people from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/appeals-court-deals-blow-trump-admi
nistration-travel-ban-47643365
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Republicans don't understand the concept of a Ghost Town: when the veins of silver are all gone in the local mine, it is time to abandon the town. When the trees have been cut down and the sawmill closes, it is time to abandon the town. When people sell their horses to the slaughter house and buy cars and the horse-drawn buggy factory that employs everybody closes, leave town.
Originally posted by THGRRI:
There are many thousands of towns and communities that relies or relied on one form of industry. Everything else that supports a town or community is spawned into existence because of that industry. Outsourcing and digital advancements have been sucking the life source out of theses places. Anger and protectionism is the result.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly]
They have no sense of neighbor. They scream the loudest they are the ones who do, but they don't. Nowhere in the bible does it say think and act like a Republican.
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