[BartSimpson]

JaredMilne JaredMilne:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Cut spending on social programs and in particular programs that provide services to illegal aliens. It also appears that he's going to propose shutting down some Federal cabinet-level departments in his 2019-2020FY budget proposal. That'll save a bunch of money, too.

How much of the overall national budget do those other agencies make up compared to military and defence? I'm not an expert on the U.S. budget, obviously, but I'd have thought that defence expenditures cost a lot more than the EPA, the Department of Education, and so forth.

Social spending is now more than half of the budget with spending on non-defense agencies accounting for another 1/3 of the budget.

Here's a pie chart for 2015 to illustrate it all.

[BeaverFever]

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100 Days of Horror

With Donald Trump’s 100th day in office fast approaching, White House staffers are reportedly trying desperately to “rebrand” the colossal failure of the first 100 days as some kind of success.

Trump’s legislative agenda has been stymied. The drip, drip, drip of negative news about connections between campaign associates and Russia — and Russia’s efforts to impact our election — continues unabated. He seems to have no real strategy for governance other than pouting and gloating. His advisers are at each other’s throats. And the public has soured on him to a historic degree.

His failures so far, I suppose, should bring resisters like me some modicum of joy, but I must confess that they don’t. Or, more precisely, if they do, that joy is outweighed by the rolling litany of daily horrors that Trump has inflicted.

The horrors are both consuming and exhausting. For me at this point they center on an erosion of equality. This by no means downplays Trump’s incessant lying, the outrage of his draining the Treasury for his personal junkets, or his disturbing turn toward war. But somewhat below the radar, or at least with less fanfare, our access, inclusion and justice are being assailed by a man who lied on the campaign trail promising to promote them.



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