Tennessee Congressman Cohen just lately wrote that the proposed Healthcare plan “should have been called the ‘Ebenezer Scrooge Act’ because it enriches the wealthiest individuals and harms the less fortunate, both fiscally and physically!”Thankfully, we dodged the bullet that might have dismantled Medicaid and eliminated the opportunity of reasonably priced healthcare for thousands and thousands. Nonetheless, Scrooge is making an attempt to strike once more! Whereas President Ebenezer Trump spends as a lot of the taxpayers cash on private journeys (to Mar-a-Lago and so forth) in a single month as Obama did in a yr ($11 million), he is evidently trying to remove each expense that does not profit huge enterprise.Our nation’s greatest enterprise nowadays is within the navy help industries. So, on March 16th, when our new Commander and Chief launched his proposed finances, it beneficial deep cuts in diplomatic efforts to forestall violent battle and genocide, whereas rising the massive enterprise of navy expenditures – in impact buying and selling the likelihood for peace for the knowledge of conflict.
Trump’s finances would additionally scale back the EPA’s allowance by 31%! They wish to see the removing of the Vitality Star program (which improves vitality effectivity), finish all funding for the Chesapeake Bay cleanup mission, put an finish to the grant program that helps cities and states take care of air air pollution, AND remove the Environmental Justice Workplace – as a result of environmental justice is NOT a precedence. Enterprise is evidently the one precedence. This proposed finances would remove 50 EPA applications!Final yr, lawmakers utterly disregarded Obama’s finances, and now now we have a proposed finances that will increase spending on Navy and Homeland safety, however completely eliminates 19 businesses, and reduces spending on all the pieces else!As Obama identified in his State of the Union tackle, January 12th, 2016, “We spend more on our military than the next eight nations combined!”But, for his billionaire successor, that is not sufficient! And all now we have to do to spend much more is reduce spending on these non-productive social applications that do not assist any of the actually vital folks on Scrooge’s checklist.This Ebenezer Finances
Eliminates the $200 million McGovern-Dole Worldwide Meals for Schooling program
Eliminates the $500 million Water and Wastewater mortgage and grant program
Cuts Ladies, Infants and Kids vitamin help one other $200 Million
Cuts workers at USDA service heart businesses across the nation
Cuts $95 million from the Rural Enterprise and Cooperative Service
Trump’s now well-known remark to the African-American group reveals simply how little understanding and the way a lot contempt his has for common residents: “You live in your poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs… What the hell do you have to lose?”
Effectively really, his proposed finances would guarantee that poor (and never simply the poor blacks) on this nation lose rather a lot. “Meals on Wheels,” heating and vitality help, and vitamin help to ladies and youngsters (WIC) can be drastically reduce or eradicated below Trump’s proposed finances! Air pollution of our world will escalate, terrorism will enhance, because the elitists’ contempt for diplomacy pumps all our social funds into the conflict machine; whereas the promised employment seems to be primarily one choice: The Navy.This is not solely Trump’s fault – though it’s his finances. A big a part of Congress has been enabling him, and that is why we want a Model New Congress whose priorities are the identical as We The Individuals! Discover out how one can assist: https://brandnewcongress.org/