The LuLac Edition #4,227, February 19th, 2020

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This week's "Write On Wednesday deals with the President's budget. Take a look at some of the stuff he is cutting.
Times Shamrock has it right.

TRUMP’S TRUE PRIORITIES REVEALED IN BUDGET PLAN

Like all proposed federal budgets in the modern era, President Donald Trump’s $4.8 trillion budget plan for the next fiscal year is dead on arrival in Congress.
But, also like all budget proposals, Trump’s plan reveals his true priorities, making it fortunate in this case that the budget is DOA.
After vowing on the stump in 2016 to eliminate the national debt and deficit within eight years, Trump drove the massive tax cut that primarily benefits wealth interests while driving up the debt and deficit to record levels, The deficit for the 2018-2019 fiscal year exceeded $1 trillion for the first time ever, and the deficit for the first three months of the current fiscal year, through January, is $356 billion.
Trump’s budget would attempt to reduce the deficit by attacking crucial programs that earlier had vowed to protect, including
$292 billion from safety-net cuts from Medicaid and food stamps and $70 billion from Social Security disability benefits. The administration contends the plan would reduce spending by $4.4 trillion over a decade, while yet again vastly increasing defense spending.
At a time when the world is in a defensive crouch regarding the coronavirus that has killed more than 1,000 people in China, Trump proposes a funding cut of 9% for the Department of Health and Human Services.
Trump would cut the Environmental Protection Agency by a stunning 26% and, even as he claims a desire to diminish the U.S. global military footprint, Trump would increase funding for overseas operations by $32 billion.
Americans should judge all politicians, including Trump, not only by what they say but how they would spend.