Trump's new budget proposal .. to show how far he has moved away from some 2016 campaign promises.
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Trump’s new budget proposal expected to show how far he has moved away from some 2016 campaign promises
The president’s 2021 budget request will kick off the annual spending roulette
By Jeff Stein and Erica Werner at the Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/02/08/trumps-new-budget-proposal-will-show-how-far-he-has-moved-away-2016-campaign-promises/
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The budget proposal President Trump will release Monday is expected to lay bare how much he has adjusted to the political and practical limits of Washington, with some of his biggest campaign promises from 2016 cast aside and replaced with more limited policy ambitions.
On immigration, health care, infrastructure and the deficit, the final budget pitch of Trump’s first term will look much different from the campaign platform he offered four years ago.
The border wall that he promised would be paid for by Mexico is instead being financed by billions in U.S. taxpayer dollars, and the administration’s budget request to Congress is expected to seek even more.
The president’s 2015 promise to protect Medicaid from cuts has been repeatedly ignored, as he has sought to slash some $800 billion over a decade from the health program for low-income Americans. The latest evidence of this came on Saturday, when he wrote on Twitter that the budget proposal “will not be touching your Social Security or Medicare.” He made no mention of protecting Medicaid, even though he had vowed to guard it during his first presidential campaign.
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