22 agencies and programs Trump's budget would eliminate

[laserhaas]

Source: The HILL

President Trump on Monday unveiled his budget proposal for the 2019 fiscal year, which makes significant cuts to some federal agencies and projects as part of an effort to slash the federal deficit by $3 trillion over the next 10 years.

As part of that effort, Trump has proposed eliminating funding for several agencies, grant programs and institutes.

While lawmakers are unlikely to enact most of Trump's proposal, here's a look at some of the centers and agencies the White House wants to abolish

Read more: https://thehill-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/thehill.com/homenews/administration/373441-the-federal-programs-trump-proposes-cutting-in-2019-budget?amp

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I don't know if listing the 22 agencies would violate the 4 paragraph protocol; but here are some of them Trump is eliminating...

No 5 - Before and After school programs. No 10 - Global Climate Change Initiative. No. 14 - Public Broadcasting. No 17 - National Endowment for the Arts.

[BumRushDaShow]

1. From the article

14. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds public television and radio stations including Public Broadcasting Service and NPR.

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16. The Legal Services Corporation, a nonprofit that provides civil legal assistance for low-income individuals.

17. The National Endowment for the Arts, which funds American artists and projects with grants.

18. The National Endowment for the Humanities, which provides grants to American humanities scholars.

These alone seem to be targets every time a Republican is elected to the Presidency.

[laserhaas]

3. Especially this Pres...who hates anything decent & good

Donald the Great - Destroyer of Things

[C Moon]

16. Didn't Reagan and the Bush's pick on Public Broadcasting, as well?

[BumRushDaShow]

18. Yes

thus my statement -

These alone seem to be targets every time a Republican is elected to the Presidency.

When Obama was in, he had to resurrect some of these when Shrub killed them... The CBP became a sore point however, due to Sesame Street, so it was essentially left intact (although damaged because now HBO runs new Sesame Street episodes and those without a subscription have to wait until they are finally released on PBS).

[KT2000]

2. 12. Chemical Safety Board

which investigates chemical accidents.

[getagrip_already]

22. koch payoff... n/t

[laserhaas]

43. They need a racketeering seizure of all their wealth

Spare America from their schemes

[dbackjon]

25. And costs only $11 Million a year

[laserhaas]

44. Just the RWNJ mob mentality

Chopping away

[AllaN01Bear]

4. these pukes never cared for pbs or the arts or higher ed .

[laserhaas]

5. Exactly! The dumber the citizenship is

the more they like it.

[FreeStateDemocrat]

6. Fuck the pukes and their plan to trash our society, turning into a plutocracy.

Old blues song "there is evil goin' on!"

[laserhaas]

45. Always

[MBS]

7. Wow. Check out this list.

Paraphrased here:
1. McGovern-Dole International Food for Education. . . (feeding schoolchildren in other countries)

2. Rural Business and Cooperative Service (loans and grants for increasing opportunities in rural communities.

3. Economic Development Administration ( grants to communities in support of locally-developed economic plans.

4. Manufacturing Extension Partnership (help for small and medium-sized manufacturers)

5. 21st Century Community Learning Centers ( before- and after-school programs and summer school programs)

6. Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (college preparation for low-income students)

7.Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (research to increase the effectiveness of health services.

8. Advanced Research Projects Agency (funds Energy Department research).

9. National Wildlife Refuge Fund (compensates communities for lost tax revenue when federal gov. acquires their land) Hey- shouldn't this crowd WANT this kind of thing?


10. The Global Climate Change Initiative (you know, withdrawing from the Paris agreement )

11. The NASA Office of Education (grants to colleges and universities, museums and science centers. supposedly $ would be "redirected within NASA." . but for what purpose?

12. The Chemical Safety Board ( tasked with investigating accidents at chemical facilities) (Gee, THIS sounds like a good idea -NOT )

13. The Corporation for National and Community Service ( funds service opportunities, promotes volunteering mhelps nonprofit organizations )

14. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds public television and radio stations including Public Broadcasting Service and NPR.

15. The Institute of Museum and Library Services ( funds museums and libraries nationwide )

16. The Legal Services Corporation (a nonprofit providing egal assistance for low-income individuals)

17. The National Endowment for the Arts.

18. The National Endowment for the Humanities.

19. The Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, which funds community development projects nationwide.

20. The Denali Commission, the Delta Regional Authority and the Northern Border Regional Commission ( infrastructure and economic projects in particular areas).

21. The U.S. Trade and Development Agency (U.S. goods and services for foreign projects.)(WHAT?)

22. The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a BIPARTISAN think tank on international affairs and foreign policy.

[longship]

29. Thank you, MBS.

[world wide wally]

30. Yeah, but we have to pay for those private jet deductions somehow

FtP (fuck these people)

[laserhaas]

46. Ain't that some chit!

[world wide wally]

58. Life in Trumpworld

[Glimmer of Hope]

42. A lot of good work wiped out.

[MBS]

61. Really heartbreaking.

This crowd seems determined to destroy everything good that our country has accomplished in the last 100 years.

[dchill]

55. +22000!

[magicarpet]

8. Ya don't need no edacashun... Just git a buy-bull.

[laserhaas]

12. :p

[GWC58]

53. Then take two Bufferin

and go to bed. Tough it out.

[UpInArms]

9. Small rural communities will be gobsmacked

2. The Rural Business and Cooperative Service, which provides loans, grants and payments intended to increase opportunities in rural communities.

3. The Economic Development Administration, which provides federal grants to communities in support of locally-developed economic plans.

4. The Manufacturing Extension Partnership, which subsidizes advisory and consulting services for small and medium-size manufacturers.

5. 21st Century Community Learning Centers, which helps communities establish or expand centers to provide before- and after-school programs and summer school programs.

[MontanaMama]

10. As sad as this is...

rural communities have this coming to them. Elections have consequences and this is their big fat thank you.

[UpInArms]

14. I am aware ...

The vote here was 80% tRump / 20% Clinton ...

😔

[MontanaMama]

15. Yes.

I talk to people every single day who think their tRump vote was a good thing for the country. I'm dumbfounded as to how we perceive these vastly different Americas.

[Juliusseizure]

35. Racism/culture wars trump everything else

Including self-preservation.

Its why poor white soldiers who made up the vast majority of the confederate army fought for a few wealthy landowners to preserve slavery/white supremacist identity.

Hatred and ignorance to preserve sanctity of bigot culture above all else.

[not fooled]

37. Yeah

they'd rather have their hatred than comfortable lives.

I don't get it.

[raccoon]

40. Remember the Confederate States of America had a draft.

A book that might interest yall is "Bitterly Divided." Its premise is that most white Southerners didn't want to secede, but (as usually happens in any century) the 1% or 5% or whatever shoved it through.

[Juliusseizure]

57. Most soldiers were volunteers

The union had a draft too, but most soldiers on both sides were volunteers.

By the time the south instituted the draft in 1862, they had hundreds of thousands of volunteers - far too many to manage.

You might be citing that % from the book, but it's impossible to know and secession is a different issue.

Its historically accurate to say the vast majority of confederate soldiers believed in preservation of slaves as property, assumed white supremacy, and saw legal equality with blacks as a direct assault on core beliefs.

[red dog 1]

11. K&R...Thanks for posting

No 16 - The Legal Services Corporation

Where the hell are they now going to find funding?

(I truly hate that puffed-up, pompous, child-raping piece of shit!)

[laserhaas]

13. THANKS

Your comment is extremely '$pot On' - well stated

[CrispyQ]

17. The damage in a year has been stunning. Three more?

[laserhaas]

21. I sincerely don't believe we can last 3 more years.

Donald the Great - Destroyer - is on a mission to establish chaotic order - and eliminate all dissent.

[Juliusseizure]

36. Not with GOP majorities in congress

[laserhaas]

47. Hard to address that, in 2018 mid-terms

7 million blocked votes in 2016; which is an issue that us still unaddressed

[dbackjon]

19. I wish they would do better reporting and give what last year's budget amounts were

[laserhaas]

48. Transparency from these guys

The only transparency we'll ever f2f st, is when they privatize Social Security; and wipe it all out.

Then we'll see the clean swept empty vaults

[BlueDog22]

20. Won't Pass

That kind of budget will not pass. It's just a starting point. By the end of negotiations, spending will just get worse. That's the way the GOP functions.

[Vinca]

23. So pretty much any science-y, artsy or educational programs with a little starvation thrown in

for good measure. What else would you expect from this greedy pack of idiots? (We're going to have sooooooooooooo much repair work to do when this nightmare is over.)

[laserhaas]

49. I know..right

Unless we take back the House, Senate and Presidency, 2020 will be a nightmare

[ffr]

24. Can we agree on one issue here, No More Conservative Republicans?

We should need to agree 100% on this. A moratorium on voting for anyone who claims to be a conservative. They're all evil and they're all crooks. If you have to hold your nose for the democratic candidate ever again, you're a fool. Pull the lever and then nitpick them after they're in office. At least democrats listen.

[geardaddy]

26. POS Scrotus and his merry men

Stealing from the poor to give to the rich.

[laserhaas]

50. That sums it up

Yup

[Thomas Hurt]

27. The poor and ignorant are easier to oppress and exploit....

just the way our fascist wannabe despot likes it.

[barbtries]

28. i am honestly flummoxed.

i don't get what his end game is. what kind of country does he want to live in?

motherfucker.

[maxsolomon]

34. One where everyone is dragged down to the level of the average White Republican voter

and is filled with Resentment.

I'm sure we'll all be paying for his Gold Mausoleum when it gets built, however.

[Angry Dragon]

31. Trump hates America

[aggiesal]

32. I wonder how many ...

people that work for these agencies, voted for Cheetolini?

You think they regret their vote?

They're idiots if they voted for Herr Gropenfuhrer.

[not fooled]

41. Oh, a lot

fools who utterly failed to grasp the existential threat that dump and his backers represented to their jobs and livelihoods. Morans who got sucked into the "Hillary is evil" nonsense.

[maxsolomon]

33. the Budget as Gish Gallop

Making Liberals re-fight battles they've won.

President Stigginit. Trillions for war, none for Beauty.

[Honeycombe8]

38. They've been trying to do away with PBS and the Arts for eons.

Jerks.

[BigmanPigman]

39. Well, I am glad that those Mexican rapists and murderers

who will be paying for their Border Wall and not us.

[liberal N proud]

51. Proving he is pure EVIL!

[Lifelong Protester]

52. Conserving what??

They (he) are supposedly a conservative-what is it they (he) are conserving?

[lapfog_1]

54. Holy Shit!!!

#8 Advanced Projects Research Agency

The name has flipped from ARPA to DARPA a few times...

Let's see... is there anything around today that might not be here without ARPA.

Well, back in the mid-1970s I took a course at a university near mine (state rivals) because they offered one of the nation's first computer networking courses. We wrote code for BBN TIMPs and wrote papers on the subject... titled something like "Much has been written about the ARPAnet, we are here to write a little more" ( anyone riding the kazoo bus now knows who I am ).

ARPAnet... hmmm... let's see, is that still a thing? yeah... it is... it is now known as the Internet.

If it had been invented by a corporation, we either wouldn't have it or it would cost a f'ing fortune. The Internet is YOUR tax dollars at work.

I worked at NASA in the 1990s... part of my job was to give research grants to universities to develop technologies that might be useful. I used the NASA Office of Education to get those funds to useful things (at least I thought they were useful). The first one I personally granted was to UC Berkeley for a Computer Science project which had the unlikely title of "A Taxonomy of Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks". NASA gave a prof and his grad students around $100,000 to create a hardware Redundant Array" device... currently known in the multi-BILLION computer storage industry as a RAID device ( they changed inexpensive to independent because IBM objected - IBM not having at the time any "inexpensive" disk drives for sale ) I didn't "invent" RAID anymore than Al Gore "invented" the internet... but I was responsible for early funding and the formalization of the mathematics behind RAID technology.

Over the next few years I made grants for things like:

1. light wave switching - using lasers in fiber optic cables to create speed of light switching mechanisms by using interference patterns generated by two laser beams interacting with each other.

2. WDM and DWDM in fiber optic communications - WDM - Wave Division Multiplexing and Dense Wave Division Multiplexing... this is the idea of using many independent wavelength lasers to use the same fiber optic cable to increase the amount of information one can transmit over a single fiber pair.

3. GFS - Global File System - A single shared file system between a cluster of computers... This was one of the first true parallel file system and lives on today - 20 years later - as part of Redhat Linux.

Each of these grants was around $100,000. All using the agency that Trump now wants to kill... billions and billions of ROI on your tax dollars.

And ARPA... no... they can't kill that

[SCantiGOP]

56. Really hard to believe

Really

[Takket]

59. These are all sacrifices the middle class makes to pay for the tax scam