Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) is in charge of the appropriations for most social programs. She released this list of the programs that the Trump administration wants to slash or gut. She stands in his way, which illustrates the importance of re-electing a Democrat-controlled House of Representatives and electing a Denocratic Senate to stop the attacks on needed, successful federal programs.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 10, 2020
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DeLauro Statement on President Trump’s 2021 Budget
WASHINGTON, DC — Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Chair of the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee, today released the following statement on President Trump’s Fiscal Year 2021 budget.
“For the fourth year in a row, President Trump has released a budget decimating programs that help working people and the middle class. With $19 billion in cuts to programs at the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, President Trump has once again shown his disdain for those who are struggling to make ends meet. Among the programs President Trump wants to cut or eliminate are Social Security, Medicaid, Affordable Care Act subsidies, home energy assistance for seniors and people with disabilities, groundbreaking medical research, tools that help local communities fight poverty, job training programs, programs to combat climate change, funding to enforce our trade agreements, pre-school grants, teen pregnancy prevention programs, anti-hunger programs like SNAP, afterschool programs, federal work study programs, and much more.”
“As with his previous budgets, this one is going nowhere. Instead, House Democrats will continue working for the people on an agenda that recognizes our biggest economic challenge: that people are working in jobs with wages that do not keep up with the rising cost of healthcare, child care, housing, and education. As Chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, we are going to continue investing in working people, the middle class, and the most vulnerable—not millionaires, billionaires, corporations, and special interests.”
President Trump’s budget proposes significant cuts to the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, including:
Department of Labor – $1.3 billion cut
- Cuts Job Corps by $728 million
- Cuts the Bureau of International Labor Affairs by $77 million
- Cuts Women’s Bureau by $11 million
- Cuts National Dislocated Worker Grants by $110 million
- Cuts YouthBuild by $10 million
- Eliminates job training for Native Americans (-$55 million)
- Eliminates job training for Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers (-$92 million)
- Eliminates Senior Community Service Employment Program (-$405 million)
- Eliminates Susan Harwood Training Grants (-$12 million)
Department of Health and Human Services – $10.1 billion cut
- Cuts the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by $3.3 billion
- Cuts the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by $678 million
- Cuts the Health Resources and Services Administration by $742 million
- Eliminates the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) (-$3.7 billion)
- Eliminates the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) (-$1.7 billion per year)
- Eliminates the Community Service Block Grant (CSBG) (-$740 million per year)
- Eliminates Preschool Development Grants (-$275 million per year)
- Eliminates the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (-$108 million per year)
Department of Education – $6.2 billion cut
- Cuts K-12 education programs by $4.7 billion, eliminating 30 altogether, including:
- Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants (-$2.1 billion)
- Afterschool programs (-$1.2 billion)
- Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants (-$1.2 billion)
- Arts in Education (-$30 million)
- Cuts higher education and student financial assistance programs by $2.3 billion. The President’s budget:
- Eliminates Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (-$840 million)
- Eliminates Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) (-$365 million)
- Cuts Federal Work Study by $680 million
- Cuts Federal TRIO Programs by $140 million
- Cuts Childcare Access Means Parents in Schools by $38 million
- Level funds the maximum Pell Grant at $6,345
In addition, the President’s Budget:
- Cuts Social Security, Medicaid, and Affordable Care Act subsidies by over $1 trillion
- Contains a woefully inadequate paid leave proposal that falls short of what the nation needs
- Cuts the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by more than $18 billion per year, on average
- Reduces Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) by more than $2 billion per year
- Cuts the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by $2.8 billion
- Eliminates the Community Development Block Grant (-$3.4 billion)
- Eliminates the Institute of Museum and Library Services (-$229 million)
- Eliminates the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (-$455 million)
- Eliminates the Corporation for National and Community Service (-$797 million)
- Eliminates National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Grants and Education programs (-287 million)
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Trump: I know, why don’t we attack elderly and disabled people?
Republican Party: Yeah. Heh heh. That would be cool. Heh heh.
Trump: Serial predator, thug, vandal, traitor. The complete package.
Trump: Ignorant, inept, spoiled rich boy, serial predator, pathological liar, thug, vandal, traitor. The complete package.
I sent this post to my Trump-loving brother who said Yrump would never touch his Social Security or Medicare.
According to my brother, if it isn’t reported by Fox, it is all FAKE news. CNN, WaPo, NYT are all fake. [My brother once told me that Medicaid shouldn’t be given to people who don’t work because Jesus wants people to work. Jesus probably was having a bad day when he indiscriminately handed out fish and loaves of bread to everyone when he did his sermon on the mount. And, horror of horrors, he healed people without first asking if they were working.]
So, is Fox reporting how bad Trump’s budget would be for social programs and education? That’s the only ‘test of truth’. /s
more like —Trump: LOOK at all that money now going to elderly and disabled people. HOW can we get our hands on it? Republican Party: yes, yes, yes, let’s get that money.
This just in:
Trump confident going into 2020 election despite trailing the pile of dog s**t on my lawn by 12 points.
“We’ve got this,” he said to reporters on the Whiter House lawn. “We’re getting lots of help. Lots of help. People happy about the job we’ve been doing for them. Russia, if you’re listening, I have been totally exonerated. But yeah. We’re gonna win because, ya’know, it’s all on computers these days. And if there’s anybody understands computers, it’s Donald Trump.” My uncle was at MIT. My grandfather was Albert Einstein. From Germany. I know technology better than anybody.
It’s unbelievable why any person who isn’t wealthy, or an Evangelical or conservative Catholic, would vote for this narcissistic man/baby who can’t even speak decent English.
He is totally despicable and should be hated for the damage that he continues to do to this country. He should be in prison and my hope is that one of the lawsuits done by states will put him exactly where he should be. It will shut him up and he can pay to use a common area phone to talk with his daughter or son, provided the whole family, plus Pence, don’t also end up in the slammer.
It is my dream to see Trump the Terrible and his Propaganda Minister, Stevie “Goebbels” Miller standing in the dock at the International Court of Criminal Justice, charged with crimes against humanity. And Trump convicted in state courts for serial sexual abuse, money laundering, and misappropriation of charitable funds.
Trump was on TV saying that coronavirus would disappear as the weather gets warmer. No problem.
You know I agree with you and Bob on almost everything. I might go a little further than Bob, wanting to see THEM in orange suits. But at some point we have to acknowledge that Democrats have enabled him through the budget process.
When Obama was in office in the depths of a recession Moscow Mitch and the boys were determined to see that he was a one term President. After threatening to send the already disastrous economy into an inferno by refusing to extend the debt ceiling,they reach a Grand Bargain with Obama. Obama who was truly unprepared for the office.(later for that )
The Grand Bargain was a provision to offset any increase in spending with cuts to other social programs. That effectively locked Obama into stagnation on the economy and a slow recovery. Of course this was brought on by Obama. His first move in office was to acknowledge that Republicans were right. He appoints a debt commission instead of “dropping money from helicopters”. And locking up bankers. .
When Republicans shut down the Government, does he go to the steps of the capital each day to say here is my budget. To say I am here to sign it whenever “you people ” are willing to put the interest of the American people over the interest of the Oligarchs you represent. No he extends the Bush tax cuts.
I said “unprepared”, was i being to generous, because the alternative is; he never was the person we thought he was. Hopey Changy had Michael Froman a Managing Director of CitiBank pick his entire first cabinet, while the Bank received 350billion in bailout money. Nor can we forget that Romney and Obama agreed on cuts to Social Security. Don’t believe me Obama told you that in the first 2012 debate.
So Trump and the Republicans for decades have know how to use theatrics and known how to use power when they have had it. 6 years of White Water 5 years of Benghazi. When they don’t have a scandal they manufacture one. Benghazi not good enough how about uranium one. Why, who can forget turning John Kerry into a draft dodger. What person in their right mind could believe that there was anyway to work with the Party that Clinton passed their every wish, only to be impeached for oral sex (lying about) in the White House.
It is important to note that the entire stimulus in 2009 was a total of 500 billion + a tax cut for 250 Billion +- . After that budgets were reigned in tight and the deficit in 2015 had shrunk to about 400 billion. (The rise in deficits in 2016 is a long explanation having to do with oil prices)
Every year the democrats have been giving Trump an equivalent of that Stimulus when the economy was in desperate shape. If the Republicans get re elected it will be because Democrats gave them the tools to super charge the economy. Although it is not super charged. If democrats reigned in spending increases , they would have constrained the economy to very slow growth and revealed the tax cuts and Trumpism to be a failure. After all deficits are supposed to fall when the economy is good. Where is the Trickle down effect they could ask.
Now understand i am a tax and spend big government liberal and I hear the argument from Schumer’s office aide that we had the ability to help people.
But are you doing more long term harm to those very same people.
I think we all know a Trumpanzee like this . ” Why should I pay for someone else to go to college I spent my hard earned money to send my own children “( to a subsidized State University)
Well perhaps because one of those children now suffers from schizophrenia and is practically a ward of the state and you want me to spend my hard earned money to help him. (i don’t object) . But will this person ever lean with out suffering the burden. The biggest mistake was the ACA. Had it never been passed the the employer provided health system would have died in the Great Recession, as employer sought to cut costs and transferred cost, to increase profits.
The Great depression was a Black Swan moment that changed the country for 40-50 years Roosevelt knew how to wield power . Read his speeches from 36 .
“They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. “
Joel,
I am with you on the orange jump suit thing.
Trump is an expert on everything. If he says that coronavirus would disappear as the weather gets warmer, well then it will. CDC and WHO should contact Trump to learn more.
There are probably more than the reported 43,000 cases because some people caught it in China before it was acknowledged. There are not enough hospital beds and some people are quarantined in hotels in China.
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A 13th person in the United States has tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus, a spokesman for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.
The patient arrived in the United States last week at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar on a State Department flight from Wuhan, China, and was hospitalized along with three other people after exhibiting possible symptoms of the virus. After an initial test showed all four patients tested negative, they were released Sunday and returned to the 14-day federal quarantine at Miramar, the University of California, San Diego Health, said in a statement.
“This morning, CDC officials advised San Diego Public Health that further testing revealed that one of the four patients tested positive for [novel coronavirus],” UC San Diego Health said in a statement. “The confirmed positive patient was returned to UC San Diego Health for observation and isolation until cleared by the CDC for release.”
Another person at Miramar was also hospitalized Monday afternoon and was being tested for the coronavirus. Both patients “are doing well and have minimal symptoms,” UC San Diego Health said.
The San Diego case is the 13th to be confirmed in the United States and the seventh in California. Eleven of the US cases have been confirmed in people who recently traveled to Wuhan; the other two are instances of person-to-person transmission.
The global number of confirmed coronavirus cases now exceeds 43,000 and the global death toll exceeds 1,000. The vast majority of cases remains in mainland China.
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From Inkstone in Hong Kong:
Voices from China: What people at the center of coronavirus outbreak want you to know
Isolated, and sometimes shunned, the central Chinese province of Hubei is the ground zero of the coronavirus outbreak.
It accounts for some 74% of more than 43,000 people sickened globally by a disease that causes fever and cough and, in severe cases, pneumonia or death.
For those who have contracted the coronavirus, they wake each day hoping it’s their turn for treatment in a public health system inundated by patients and staffed with exhausted doctors and nurses.
For healthy families, staying home has become the best defense. Every outside contact seems potentially deadly. About one in 20 people who tested positive for the virus in the provincial capital of Wuhan has died. Every outdoor trip – getting groceries, running errands and so on – is a calculated risk, if they aren’t barred from going out in the first place.
Inkstone talked to six residents in Hubei province in an effort to understand what it’s like to live in a place bearing the brunt of the epidemic. These are their voices…
https://www.inkstonenews.com/society/coronavirus-outbreak-what-people-wuhan-want-tell-world/article/3050013?utm_source=email&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=share_button
Kudos to Peter “CURMUDGUCATION” Greene on the photo/caption accompanying his article on how Trump & Devos are abandoning charter schools in favor of vouchers:
https://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2020/02/trump-and-devos-abandon-charter-schools.html
This started my day with a good laugh.
The photo is indeed wonderful. Thanks, Peter!!!
Anything I can do to brighten someone’s day…
But the Fool Trump wants more money for “HIS” damn wall that is not needed, will not work, will fall down in windy weather, and cost billions to maintain. How intelligent is that? We now have a country led by a wealthy fool leading more wealthy fools to the destruction of the what once the greatest country in the world.
Story this morning says that a Native American burial ground was dug up by construction crew for Trump’s Wall.
Diane: One does NOT mess with a Native American burial ground. [I am studying with a Cherokee shaman and I never watched the movie, “the Shining’.]
Fair weather wall
What Trump built
Is Fair weather wall
Windy tilt
And light feather fall
ALL of this AND he cut taxes on the very wealthy
and
the corporations making millions every year get
SUBSIDIES while paying NO income tax.
Besides the tax havens where their money is hidden
from view.
Money cut from the people who track down tax fraud
so the wealthy who can afford top lawyers can drag out
the case so they are too often never audited.
Only the poor people who cannot afford those lawyers are made
to pay the penalties.
Meanwhile our national debt is increasing by
[I don’t remember just now but maybe something like a trillion dollars]
. Makes perfect sense
IF
you are a Republican and
pledge allegiance to your party and
to the great president it represents.
How tragic that the rest of us poor peons
cannot see the logic of all this.
The president’s budget would put the federal ledger in the black in just 15 years. | Fox News
Trump unveils $4.8 trillion budget plan
FOX Business’ Blake Burman explains the Trump administration’s newly-revealed budget plan.
In 2017, Speaker Pelosi famously cajoled House Republicans to produce a budget, warning “show me your budget, show me your values.” She was understood to mean that you can learn about someone’s deepest convictions judging the way in which they spend their money.
Ironically, she and her party never produced a budget when they regained control of the House in 2019. One could presume they failed to “show” their “values” because the values held by the radical leftwing of the Democrat Party today would terrify voters.
In contrast, President Trump is not afraid to put his cards on the table. Monday, he announced his 2021 presidential budget request (PBR), A Budget for America’s Future. After reading through it, I can endorse it as pro-worker, pro-family and pro-growth…
https://fxn.ws/2HejPzI
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.
It’s ALL about dismantling government.
That’s why Trump hires so many uniquely unqualified people tlije Betsy DeVos to head the different agencies. Their purpose is not to run them but to shut them down.
That’s also why virtually all Republican support Trump policies, even if, like Mitt Romney, they don’t like the man.
Trump has delivered what Republicans have been trying to accomplish for decades: dismantling the government piece by piece, until it is small enough to drown in a bathtub.
Not sure how. But I have become SomeDAM Lost
Daine saif “Trump was on TV saying that coronavirus would disappear as the weather gets warmer. No problem.”
I guess not. The newspaper today said it had reached 64 degrees in Antartica. That was near one of the research stations there.