Ken Previti lists 80 programs that will be eliminated if Trump’s budget is approved.
They are all programs that help people.
Trump will invest instead in expanding the military although we have a bigger military than the next seven nations put together.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
AND WHO BETTER TO DESTROY ALL THINGS EDUCATION?
“As chief compliance officer for a corporate owner of for-profit colleges, Robert S. Eitel spent the past 18 months as a top lawyer for a company facing multiple government investigations, including one that ended with a settlement of more than $30 million over deceptive student lending.
Today, Mr. Eitel — on an unpaid leave of absence — is working as a special assistant to the new secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, whose department is setting out to roll back regulations governing the for-profit college sector.
The Education Department says Mr. Eitel has conferred several times with its ethics officer to avoid conflicts. But it says he is not precluded from having a voice on general issues and regulations that affect the for-profit college sector.
Mr. Eitel’s position could nonetheless bump up against federal rules involving conflicts of interest and impartiality, particularly given his position as a vice president for regulatory legal services at Bridgepoint Education Inc., an operator of for-profit colleges, during federal investigations into the company.”
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Ethics? Nowhere in the swamp, gone missing.
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What will it take for people loyal to Trump to realize he is not working to help any of them? I still see large groups turn out to support the Orange Buffoon. Around half of the country thinks he is doing a great job. WHY??
Of course these proposed cuts haven’t happened yet. Maybe that’s the answer to my question?? People aren’t aware of what is coming.
(I’m a member of IRTA.)
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Trump’s followers think his budget cuts will affect only blacks, Hispanics, immigrants, and Muslims
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Trump has formed a cult of personality. Usually reserved for Communist and Central Asian dictators, Trump has managed this in a disturbingly short time. The next thing we’ll see are required pictures of Trump in every public space, and requirements to study the “Art of the Deal” in schools. If we’re “lucky,” we might even get a new national anthem out of it.
His supporters will NEVER believe that Trump is God’s gift to the world.
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This is just criminal, horrible, I’m gobsmacked. It all could have been so different but too many people fell under the spell of this demagogue and charlatan. The damage to our country will be monumental.
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Here is a splend graphic of the proposed cuts. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-trump-budget/
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The president and his administration are the most cold hearted, greedy and mean spirited elected officials I’ve ever seen. We must not allow this to happen!
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Sadly this has already happened. Too many years of ALEC/Koch Bros/Citizens United interference has changed the landscape. The proverbial “genie” is out of the bottle.
Let’s hope that the absolute embarrassing absurdity of the IPOTUS’s behavior, his underlying mental health issues, the incessant conflict-of-interest displays and the obvious erosion/deconstruction of the federal infrastructure will be enough to prompt the few remaining GOP legislators with a modicum of conscience in DC to put nation before party and take him off the street with the 25th.
(I know it was a rant, but I needed to vent.)
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Paul Ryan: I’ve Been Dreaming About Kicking the Poor off Medicaid Since I Was a Frat Boy
By Osita Nwanevu, Slate
18 March 17
…Ryan: So, the health care entitlements are the big, big, big drivers of our debt. There are three. Obamacare, Medicaid, and Medicare. Two out of three are going through Congress right now. So, Medicaid—sending it back to the states, capping its growth rate. We’ve been dreaming of this since you and I were drinking out of a keg.
[Laughter]
Lowry: I was thinking about something else, he was thinking about reforming Medicaid.
Ryan: I was, I was! I’ve been thinking about this for a long time. We are on the cusp of doing something we’ve long believed in.
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/42545-paul-ryan-ive-been-dreaming-about-kicking-the-poor-off-medicaid-since-i-was-a-frat-boy
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Another Trumpian monster: Tom Price blows off a cancer patient’s concern about losing Medicaid
By Joan McCarter
Thursday Mar 16, 2017
…Brian Kline, a working-class guy who has cancer, and who’s life is being saved by Medicaid expansion.
Kline tells Price he’s working at a retail job, $11.66/hour, and is being kept alive because he has Medicaid. “Medicaid expansion gives me the economic security in knowing that funding is always going to be there for my cancer care,” he told Price. “So my question for you Secretary Price is pretty straightforward—why do you want to take away my Medicaid expansion?”
“We don’t want to take care away from anybody,” he tells Kline. “What we want to make certain, though, is that every single American has access to the kind of coverage and care that they want for themselves.”
Right because access to cancer doctors will always be there for everyone. It’s just that issue with affording it that Price glosses over.
“You look at the Medicaid program right now, we have one third of the physicians in this nation, Brian, who are not seeing Medicaid patients. […] Let me just suggest it’s because the Medicaid program itself has real problem in it.” … and Price tells him the system that saved him is broken.
Then this: “So what we want to do is, one, reform the Medicaid system, make certain that individuals who are currently on Medicaid or are on the expansion are either able to retain that or move to a system that might be much more responsive to them through a series of advanceable, refundable credits—a way to get coverage that they choose for themselves and for their family, not that the government forces on them.”
Seems like Mr. Kline doesn’t feel that his choice or his liberty has been curtailed by having Medicaid doctors save his life.
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