. Teacher training, after-school, and summer听. The National Endowment for the Arts. The Appalachian Regional Commission.听. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).听
All these initiatives and agencies 鈥 plus many more 鈥 face cuts or wholesale elimination under President Donald Trump鈥檚 proposed 鈥 officially unveiled on March 16.
Meanwhile, the blueprint听听颈苍听, border and immigration enforcement, and money for charter and private schools.
Senator Bernie Sanders called the budget 鈥渕orally obscene and bad economic policy鈥.
鈥淎t a time of massive income and wealth inequality, when 43 million Americans are living in poverty and half of older Americans have no retirement savings, we should not slash programs that senior citizens, children, and working people rely on in order to provide a massive increase in spending to the military industrial complex.鈥
Diane Yentel, head of the National Low-Income Housing Coalition, warned Trump鈥檚 budget 鈥渨ould have a devastating impact on millions of the lowest income people across the country鈥.
As the budget axes critical environment, public health, and science programs 鈥 including with a听 鈥 it 鈥渇eeds the fossil fuel industry鈥, Oil Change International policy director Janet Redman听听on March 16, pointing to the continuation of huge subsidies for oil, gas, and coal companies.听
Politico听: 鈥淎s proposed, the Trump budget almost certainly will not pass Congress. Too many lawmakers, including many Republicans, have declared it dead on arrival.
鈥淏ut the document nonetheless represents a crucial road map for a president who is new to government, and who has at least a full term to pursue his goals.鈥
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