Trump proposes to eliminate the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, which are very small appropriations, but which Republicans have always hated. I seem to recall that he wants to eliminate NOAA so the weather service can be completely privatized, and the public will have to pay to find out what the weather is and might be.
Laura Chapman adds:
In addition to the cuts to education programs, consider these cuts too.
Cuts the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by $2.8 billion Can’t have the EPA telling us we should be able to drink lead and contaminant-free water, breath clean air, save the land from more degradation from fracking, stop save the oceans from oil spills and micro plastics and so on.
Eliminates National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Grants and Education programs (-287 million) Can’t have full staffing of the agency that keeps information flowing about climate change. Can’t have scientists perpetuating “fake” news or predicting where hurricanes might fall, fires may flair, forests threaten by disease.
Eliminates the Institute of Museum and Library Services (-$229 million) “Musing” is dead. Move fast and break things. While you are at it trust the internet for all information, never trust a librarian. Nobody but a few elitists want to preserve these programs with full staff.
Eliminates the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (-$455 million) Everyone knows that this is a LIBERAL, news and entertainment outfit and that billionaires can fund it.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
NOAA is personal for me. My late brother worked on the optics and “moderate orbit” satellite technology that produces images of planet earth. He lived long enough to see this work, starting with the Earth Resourses Satellite decades ago, was threatened with privatizers whose only interest was profit-seeking.
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Trump is DISGUSTING to the max. All he knows how to to do is DESTROY anything of value. He’s SLIME.
NOAA is of VALUE and is in Boulder … and trump likes to “get back” … so this is what this is all about.
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My partner and I have been planning a trip to Mexico City with our 13 year old grandson. His parents took him to get a GOES card for entry back to the US from Mexico and was told that no New Yorkers would be allowed to apply for or renew a GOES card. Payback!
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The art of the Steal
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Laura’s research adds a great deal to our understanding to so many issues, but in this case, may I offer to advise, or at least vent? For the past 30-40 years, stories like this turn up like clockwork every February—regardless of president—and they will continue to for the next 30-40 or more if we remain stuck in this game. Any president’s budget proposal is a jumble of political policy suggestions and the end results looks nothing like the February chatter. The budget process, appropriations, continuing resolutions, the broken annual schedule, and the continued distillation of power into the hands of few members of Congress has to be seen systemically.
To put this information into better context, it would be useful, rather than speculate about consequences if the numbers stay the same, to compare it last year’s experience: What did budget propose for a particular program? What was the final result? Has there been a pattern now that we have previous budgetary years to compare? The answers to these questions will reveal political constituencies, both grassroots and astroturf. They will reveal congressional champions. And most importantly, they will reveal both the hypocritical emptiness of GOP political rhetoric and its effectiveness, mostly in areas no pays attention to or questions.
In my opinion, this is an effective political bait-and-switch exercise that adds to our cynicism and exhaustion.
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If Republicans controlled both houses of Congress, Trump’s would likely be passed with few changes.
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Thank you. Diane, truer ords never spoken. Now lets all us Dems get to polls & put some much-needed Dems into the Senate!
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Not on all things. The point of my diatribe above is that if one examines the processes of the past few cycles, there have been a number of programs and projects on the presidential budget ax that were not realized and in some cases, those projects got increased funding. That means there are Republican patrons and, on the other hand, they are the same ones who cheer in February and then remain strangely silent the rest of the year. Moreover, if Republicans controlled both houses, make no mistake, it would be a horror show. But the budget proposal would look very different. Now it’s a political document meant to stick it to the libs. Under your scenario, the goals would be indoctrination, not agitation.
Unwritten in all of this, military spending. If you want to see the real threat, look no further.
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…real threat to the programs you care about.
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I do like the idea that before and after every episode of Sesame Street — now funded by “liberals” — children and their parents received this message: “This program comes to you from liberals because Trump and the Republicans want to prevent your children from watching Sesame Street and want to take Sesame Street off the air and replace it with a kids program that will have your child nagging you to buy them more expensive toys, electronics and junk food.”
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