$2.8 billion (-31%) in cuts to the EPA as corporate polluters poison our air and water. $12.3 billion (-23%) in cuts to the State Department and USAID when robust diplomacy with North Korea and others is more important than ever.
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The priorities of Trump’s “Budget for a Better America” are totally opposite of what Americans need. The budget calls for: $1 trillion+ in cuts to Medicare/Medicaid when people are dying from treatable, preventable illnesses because they can’t afford quality health insurance.
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$31.7 billion (-11%) in cuts to the Dept of Energy as we are running out of time to reduce emissions and transition to renewable energy. $5.9 billion (-22%) in cuts to the Dept of Transportation as our infrastructure crumbles and undermines our economic competitiveness.
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Meanwhile, it also wastes millions on the W76-2, a dangerous, destabilizing, and unnecessary so-called “low-yield” nuclear warhead, a weapon *no one in the military even asked for*
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Trump’s budget requests have become an annual exercise in absurdity at this point. And while this year’s version is yet again dead on arrival here in Congress, it provides us an appalling view of what (and who) the President values.
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Richpublicans doing what they do fooling people into voting for them and giving to the rich....and giving more to the rich and more and more....
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… because dimocrats have done such a fine job with budgets … Ed Markey … to a battle of wits he comes unarmed.
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