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| Trump team prepares dramatic cuts |
| 2017-01-19 |
| h/t Instapundit Staffers for the Trump transition team have been meeting with career staff at the White House ahead of Friday’s presidential inauguration to outline their plans for shrinking the federal bureaucracy, The Hill has learned. The changes they propose are dramatic. The departments of Commerce and Energy would see major reductions in funding, with programs under their jurisdiction either being eliminated or transferred to other agencies. The departments of Transportation, Justice and State would see significant cuts and program eliminations. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting would be privatized, while the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities would be eliminated entirely. Overall, the blueprint being used by Trump’s team would reduce federal spending by $10.5 trillion over 10 years. The proposed cuts hew closely to a blueprint published last year by the conservative Heritage Foundation, a think tank that has helped staff the Trump transition. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #7 Cut welfare and other unearned entitlements 10% accross the board. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2017-01-19 21:41 |
| #6 Just bump the price of Hamilton tickets a couple Hundo per seat and you can cover all the struggling artists toot sweet. |
| Posted by: Capsu78 2017-01-19 18:56 |
| #5 ..but that's how the rich stay rich, using other peoples money (and with bonding, other generations' money). |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-01-19 16:55 |
| #4 According to the British charity group Oxfam, in 2016 the eight richest men in the world controlled as much capitol as the poorer half of humanity combined. Six of the eight are Americans (Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, and Michael Bloomberg) and all are liberal, even Progressive. Each can easily afford to take on the projects supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities. Ditto Planned Parenthood. And they'd probably run them more efficiently, too, since they wouldn't have to accept the personnel and government rules along with the projects. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-01-19 16:37 |
| #3 Big Bird in the unemployment lines? |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2017-01-19 15:04 |
| #2 The Corporation for Public Broadcasting would be privatized, while the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities would be eliminated entirely. OMG... the liberals will scream bloody murder over this. I love it. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-01-19 13:16 |
| #1 Fascinating! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2017-01-19 13:15 |