Donald Trump just can’t wait to make struggling Americans suffer. He’s not willing to wait until Congress passes the next round of bills funding the government—he wants to go back and strip funding that already passed Congress for the current fiscal year, which has just five months left in it.
In the document sent to Capitol Hill on Friday, the Senate’s Labor-HHS-Education subcommittee, which oversees the largest individual spending bill, would see the steepest cut. Its budget would drop by $7.26 billion, largely by slashing grant funding — ranging from the NIH to mental health programs — and by eliminating programs like Americorps. NIH alone would see a $1.23 billion cut.
The State and Foreign Operations subcommittee would see the next-largest cut, to the tune of $2.88 billion. The White House wants to cut about equally from the State Department's core functions, like peacekeeping, and its foreign aid programs at USAID.
Other programs on the chopping block include HUD, with a $1.68 billion cutback, and the EPA with a $247 million cut.
That money for education, mental health, medical research, Americorps, peacekeeping, the environment, and housing would definitely be better spent on military equipment and a border wall!