Budget

For over two years, Smart Dissent's Budget Cuts Series has exposed Trump's proposed budget cuts, finding savage proposals hidden beneath the surface.  The Trump White House proposed their third budget in mid-March 2019 but it's been insanely hectic since then so our Series has a lot to catch up on during April and May 2019.

In today's Budget Cut Series, Trump's budget would eliminate the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.  You've probably never heard of TANF.  Neither had we.

The Trump administration wants to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from the Medicare budget, all while giving billionaires and giant corporations huge tax breaks with the GOP Tax Scam. This is immoral. 

The budget released by the White House [in March 2019] calls for a sizable reduction for Medicare, the federal insurance for older Americans that Trump has consistently promised to protect. 

For over two years, Smart Dissent's Budget Cuts Series has exposed Trump's proposed budget cuts, finding savage proposals hidden beneath the surface.  The Trump White House proposed their third budget in mid-March 2019 but it's been insanely hectic since then so our Series has a lot to catch up on during April and May 2019.

In today's Budget Cut Series we're talking about Community Development Block Grants.  Let's explain for a second what CDBG funds are:

For over two years, Smart Dissent's Budget Cuts Series has exposed Trump's proposed budget cuts, finding savage proposals hidden beneath the surface.  The Trump White House proposed their third budget in mid-March 2019 but it's been insanely hectic since then so our Series has a lot to catch up on during April and May 2019.

In today's Budget Cut Series we're sharing that Trump's 2020 budget calls for major reductions in spending on Medicaid.

For over two years, Smart Dissent's Budget Cuts Series has exposed Trump's proposed budget cuts, finding savage proposals hidden beneath the surface.  The Trump White House proposed their third budget in mid-March 2019 but it's been insanely hectic since then so our Series has a lot to catch up on during April and May 2019.

In today's Budget Cut Series we're sharing that Trump's 2020 budget it taking aim at housing subsidies for the FOURTH time.

For over two years, Smart Dissent's Budget Cuts Series has exposed Trump's proposed budget cuts, finding savage proposals hidden beneath the surface.  The Trump White House proposed their third budget in mid-March 2019 but it's been insanely hectic since then so our Series has a lot to catch up on during April and May 2019.

In today's Budget Cut Series we're sharing that Trump's 2020 budget ends a ban on dumping in Lake Erie.  Happy Earth Day!

For over two years, Smart Dissent's Budget Cuts Series has exposed Trump's proposed budget cuts, finding savage proposals hidden beneath the surface.  The Trump White House proposed their third budget in mid-March 2019 but it's been insanely hectic since then so our Series has a lot to catch up on during April and May 2019.

In today's Budget Cut Series, Trump's budget would eliminate the Public Student Loan Forgiveness program – the program that helps America’s public school teachers, nurses, police officers, & other public servants with their student loan debt.

Another Swamp Alert... a major Trump-appointed Republican official stealing from our nation.  This time, it's Seema Verma, who runs Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act. She keeps trying to destroy these programs citing their costs while spending millions of taxpayer dollars to make herself look good.

At the Smart Dissent Education page linked here, we have written over and over and over about the heinous efforts of the worthless Betsy DeVos to destroy our education system.  Instead of drastically needed help for our schools and students, DeVos repeatedly inflict more harm in new ways.

Now her Education Department is proposing savage budget cuts to vital programs.  Let's shine a spotlight on what she's trying to do in hopes it exposes her to more sustained criticism.

A gutted I.R.S. makes the rich richer.  It's as simple as that.

Had the billions in budget reductions occurred all at once, with tens of thousands of auditors, collectors and customer service representatives streaming out of government buildings in a single day, the collapse of the IRS might have gotten more attention. Instead, it’s taken eight years to bring the agency that funds the government this low.