The Budget Cuts Series has a lot to share because the details of the White House proposed budget cuts are coming into light and they are ugly. We will update continually based on Congressional budget proposals and actions.
Television, print media, and the American public are not properly focused on the impact this administration is having on our standing in the world. This is due to an endless series of destructive executive orders, tweets with false accusations, attempted bans of Muslims, a terrible Supreme Court lifetime appointment..... and so much more.
Fareed Zakaria of CNN and the Washington Post, points out that the impacts will be significant and long lasting:
While the President regularly spouts "support" for the military, his actual policies make active military members' and their families' lives worse.
As taxpayers paid $10m for 3 #Trump weekends in Florida, a Trump hiring freeze ended pre-K, daycare for US military families in Germany pic.twitter.com/C8e317kGAp
A sweeping executive order leaked to news sources earlier in the week which would clear the way for the C.I.A. to reopen overseas “black site” prisons, like those where it detained and tortured terrorism suspects before former President Barack Obama shut them down. Fortunately, the leaked document prompted immediate outrage from both parties, a theme we can only hope continues on many other matters.
The American Sovereignty Restoration Act was introduced January 3, 2017 by Representative Rogers of Alabama’s 3rd District. It proposes to repeal the United Nations Participation Act of 1945, terminating the United States’ relationship with the United Nations under the guise of maintaining U.S. sovereignty.
This bill repeals the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 and other specified related laws.