Look between budget's line items shows Trump priorites
By Tom Burke / Herald columnist
President Trump’s budget was released last week, and captured but one news cycle. For how much it (adversely) affects folks (like everyone on Medicare and Medicaid, people with pre-existing conditions, families needing a student Pell grant, homebound seniors needing help with meals, visitors to national parks, as well as people who breath air or drink water) it should still be front page news.
Because it represents everything Trump.
And the truth is, gentle readers, that Trump’s budget is, in a presidentially-approved word, “Bulls***.”
You see, his budget is based on a lie; built on a fantasy; and filled with falsehoods.
It is deadly, dangerous and disingenuous; and it’s been pronounced dead-on-arrival by both Rs and Ds in Congress.
Now if you want to know what Trump really stands for, don’t listen to his words, watch what he does. So lets look at his budget.
Because Trump’s budget blatantly breaks many of his core promises; ignores the needs of large, vulnerable swaths of our population; burgeons the federal debt and deficit; and shortchanges not just the people he hates (everyone who doesn’t worship him), but his supporters as well.
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