Trump Will Cut $425 Million From School Safety Programs, Schumer Warns

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Source: Newsweek

Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer is speaking out against President Donald Trump’s proposed education budget. Under the spending plan, $425 million would be slashed from programs designed to prevent future school shootings and provide community assistance in disaster recovery.

The Senate minority leader said that the budget—released just days before 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida—would reduce the government’s capacity to prevent future shootings.

“To know we have a budget pieced together that undermines the Department of Education on so many levels to prevent the next Parkland tragedy is nails on a chalkboard,” Schumer said.

Under the budget proposed by Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, about $3.6 billion, or 5 percent of current spending levels, would be deducted from education spending. The cuts include $425 million removed from mental health and school safety programs, Schumer noted.

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[Initech]

1. So.... how's he gonna pay for that whole guns in classrooms thing?

[BumRushDaShow]

2. MS-13 and ISIS will pay for it!!!

Yeppers!!!!1111!!!!!!

[iluvtennis]

4. and don't forget Mexico. :-(

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Mexico still has to pay for the wall

and MS-13 will be considered "Mexico".

[iluvtennis]

6. LOL

[Mr.Bill]

3. The same way republicans pay for everything.

With a big tax cut, of course.

[pangaia]

10. medicare and SS

[Javaman]

7. in other news: tRump outlaws childhood. nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Nah, not outlawed, just on their own. Treated like afterbirth and not as well as fetuses. . . . . nt

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. louder than the noise

Somehow this needs to rise above the continuous noise coming out of the White House. TrumPutin and the Rethugs are looting the public -- if you're not in the 1%, you're a mark.