Trump asks Congress for $27.4 billion in spending cuts days before leaving office

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: The Hill

President Trump asked Congress for $27.4 billion in spending cuts just days before leaving office.

In a letter to congressional leadership, Trump specifically requested 73 cutbacks to the 2021 federal budget, according to the Post.

The letter asked leaders in the House and Senate to impound funds from almost every Cabinet-level agency including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The request also included cuts from the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, the Peace Corps and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars among a slew of others.

Trump has the ability to make such requests as the president once the bill has been passed and signed into law. However, the decision to put the budgetary cuts into motion is ultimately left to Congress which has 45 days to respond to the president's request, according to The Washington Post.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-asks-congress-for-27-4-billion-in-spending-cuts-days-before-leaving-office/ar-BB1cLy7J?li=BBnbfcQ&ocid=DELLDHP

[paleotn]

1. I'd say Donnie has more to worry about.

For starters, staying out of jail. Wonder how that self pardon is working out?

[Gothmog]

2. Who cares what trump wants??

[olddad65]

33. Oh yes there are words for him.....

Liar, thief, grifter, fraud, racist, cheater, sexual predator, rapist, mass murderer, traitor.
Just to name a few.

[dalton99a]

4. Congress should reduce Trump's Secret Service protection plan to a customer service number in India

[Rebl2]

5. Yes please

[iluvtennis]

22. + 2. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Trump the fiscal conservative emerges for 2024

This BS move so he can label Biden a big spender?

Dream on, Donnie. You are so toast.

[Tech]

7. You think he knows that he does not get the money?

[dhill926]

8. yeah...this ain't gonna happen...

nice try, asshole...

[Voltaire2]

9. well he can just fuck off

[Kablooie]

10. Trying to fool Republicans into thinking he's a statesman they can admire.

[greenjar_01]

11. ROFL

You have no power, Trumpy. Nobody is going to do shit for you. I hope nancy takes to the Infamous Lectern to rip your request up. Clown.

[C Moon]

12. "Please don't impeach me, senators!"

[marble falls]

13. He's thinking, "Who knows? Cutting spending on my way out the door might campaign well in '24."

[Jetheels]

14. To unify the country.

[TigressDem]

15. THIS sh** is DEFERRED along with your impeachment hearing. You are welcome, hairball.

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[LudwigPastorius]

16. Get fucked, you orange traitor.

I know it's your nature to take a big, steaming dump when you are forced to leave somewhere, but you need to be lawyer shopping right about now.

[George II]

17. Good luck with that, short timer.

[weissmam]

18. Trumps brain has left the building

[Ford_Prefect]

37. What clues make you think he had one when he arrived?

My theory is it got lost in baggage claim along with his soul.

[JohnnyRingo]

19. Trump didn't write this.

He clocked out in November and hasn't been to work since, except to hand out some medals and point at a wall. Besides, he's not exactly a legislature kind of guy. The only words they taught him in four years are tax cut and deregulation.

I don't know who wrote this, but his fingerprints are no where on it. Stephen Miller?

[SunSeeker]

21. Smells like Mark Meadows.

[thenelm1]

24. November? He clocked out last spring. n/t

[not fooled]

36. Has the stench of the gov't haters

such as the remaining 666kook666 brother and the rest of the money hoarders. They have driven a lot of red don's agenda. Heritage Foundation (=kooks) has had a lot to do with destroying Federal agencies. They're also behind the ongoing drive to destroy Social Security and Medicare.

[SunSeeker]

20. Go fuck yourself Trump! Just LEAVE, and stop stealing stuff from the White House!

[scarletwoman]

23. What I'd really like to know is who is behind this idea. I don't think trump would think of all this

shit on his own - this, and all the other crap he's pulling on his way out. All the rules changes in all the different departments, designed to make it hard for Biden to undo.

Some evil mind is thinking up all this shit, I'd like to know who it is.

[elleng]

27. miller

[scarletwoman]

34. Miller, yes - but I can't help but think that there are other people in the shadows pulling strings.

Possibly names we don't even know.

[elleng]

35. Surely possible.

[turtleblossom]

25. That's doable. All congress has to do is cut Tяump's traveling expenses

[elleng]

26. 'Congress . . has 45 days to respond to the president's request.'

[Talitha]

28. For once, do something for the USA - GO GOLFING FOR A WEEK !!!!

[mdbl]

38. that's all he was doing, it didn't help

[TryLogic]

29. Something to distract and entangle during the first 40 days of Biden's term

in addition to several good theories already mentioned.

It certainly sounds like Meadows, and 2024 planning, and ...

The fool doesn't realize how likely he is to be in prison by 2024.

[jmowreader]

30. Let me guess

He wants to divert the money to wall construction and drilling in ANWR.

[Major Nikon]

31. Never in history has a budget request been so dead on arrival.

I hope they recycle all the paper it was printed with or someone wipes their ass with it. At least that way it wont be such an utter waste.

[orleans]

32. is this the incentive fucking mitch mcconnell needs to get his

ass back into the senate on an "emergency" ??

[muriel_volestrangler]

39. Buried in the article - he wants to cut $4 billion from global vaccine distribution

Trump wants billions cut from global Covid vaccine distributor

President Donald Trump has sent lawmakers a sweeping package of spending cuts to consider before he leaves office, including billions in funding for a global health and vaccine distribution program involved in the Covid fight, according to the package obtained by POLITICO.

The $27.4 billion in proposed cuts is known as a rescission request — a largely symbolic package of spending claw-backs that the White House presents to Congress. There is no chance that Congress actually acts on the request. But the inclusion of $4 billion in funding for GAVI, a public-private partnership promoting vaccination in low-income countries, will likely fuel more criticism of the president’s approach to global health efforts in general and the Covid pandemic in particular.

GAVI has, among other things, worked to distribute Covid vaccine doses internationally in partnership with government and philanthropic entities. In the rescission request language, the administration argued that the funding for GAVI was coming at the cost of prioritizing vaccination efforts domestically, though Congress can and has budgeted for both.


“The $4 billion in funding designated as an emergency requirement would provide U.S. funds to support international vaccination efforts well in advance of clearly stated U.S. policy to vaccinate at-risk populations within the United States before supporting international vaccination,” the language reads.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/14/trump-billions-cut-covid-vaccine-distributor-459496

It's not money stopping more vaccinations in the USA, it's organization. This is just a last "fuck you" to the world from a failed man.