{"id":70593,"date":"2017-02-28T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70593"},"modified":"2017-02-28T11:37:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T16:37:49","slug":"trump-to-raise-federal-spending-on-defense-while-cutting-domestic-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70593","title":{"rendered":"Trump to raise federal spending on defense while cutting domestic spending"},"content":{"rendered":"

Politico<\/a> reports that the president plans to increase spending on defense, homeland security, intelligence, the Department of Justice and law enforcement while cutting deeply into domestic programs like Environmental Protection Agency and the National Endowment for the Humanities;<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will be substantially upgrading all of our military, all of our military, offensive, defensive, everything. Bigger and better and stronger than ever before,\u201d Trump said. \u201cAnd hopefully we’ll never have to use it, but nobody’s going to mess with us, folks. Nobody.\u201d<\/p>\n

To fund such a buildup without expanding the federal deficit, Trump would likely have to slash deeply into other domestic programs, particularly if he leaves entitlement programs untouched as he promised on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n

Office of Management and Budget spokesman John Czwartacki confirmed the budget would contain \u201conly discretionary spending targets\u201d but declined to release more details.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since defense and law enforcement are two things the Constitution actually says that the government is supposed to do, I don’t see the problem. Especially since the Defense Department and the troops bore most of the brunt of the cuts during the Obama Administration. It’s everyone else’s turn.<\/p>\n

Most of the EPA expenditures are related to the court costs defending their policies anyway – a lawyer employment program. If they quit writing policies, they won’t have to defend them in court. <\/p>\n

The Department of Education only hands out grants to the states (read Title 34 of the CFR) redistributing tax revenues. Jimmy Carter told us when he established the Department of Energy, that agency would slice through red tape for refineries and drilling for fuel – there haven’t been any refineries built in this country since 1975.<\/p>\n

There is a lot of redundancy that can be eliminated, too. Every agency in Washington has it’s own police force – those can be eliminated and they can start relying on a centralized law enforcement agency instead of the Government Printing Office and the Library of Congress each having their own fat donut consumers.<\/p>\n

There’s so many possibilities here, I’m almost wetting myself just thinking of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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