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White House wants more budget cuts to finance the wall and army
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Randolph Freelander
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Exhaustive list of redeeming qualities of conservative lawmakers:
The end.
The end.
Trump cares more about his image with regards to the wall promise than he does about the country. It's too bad that the GOP didn't just tell him to pound sand with the wall idea. It's clearly going to be an ineffective money pit, and if officials weren't salivating over where those construction contracts were going to land, they would admit as much.
iRAWRasaurus
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Welp the cut finance to research is going to effect me. RIP
theechrisfox
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The safest country! The deadest citizens!
Fuck these evil pieces of shit and fuck every scumbag that showed up at orange facists rallies and voted to make this abomination happen. This wall, if it ever does get built at massive expense to the taxpayer, is getting torn down after the next election. It might be the single biggest waste of money and resources in human history.
Exactly one-third of a football stadium that the taxpayers have to pay for for some reason (per year).
dunno
as long as more reasonable persons -including republican congresspeople- obstruct the whole wall business, he can point at it as something as obstructionism
unlike obamacare, which has obvious advantages and repealing it obvious disadvantages, the only thing going against the wall is...the colossal waste of money. this means that Trump has incentives to let the Obamacare repeal fade away, but keep pounding on the stupid wall issue
The worst part is that once that money is in, it's never coming out. Trying to cut anything from the defense budget is instant political ammunition.
He od egomaniac. Trump Tower is fine, but Trump Wall will make him one of the greatest people in human history, immortal with everlasting monument.
PsychoSoldier
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And the people who made money off of it will be long gone while we're all still paying it off.
That's the point. That was always the point.
old manatee
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He'd bomb us if he thought he could get away with it.
Escape Goat
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The next president could turn the wall into an assembly line. Or a water slide. Interstellar rail gun particle accelerator...
paradise_circus
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I still don't know how the US plans its overall budget. Does Trumps wish only affects the discretionary spending?
The director of the NIH spoke at my university last fall. He showed us a graph of the NIH's funding and the general trend was downward except for a slight bump upwards that had taken place in the last year. He then said he was hopeful that this was indicative of a trend of increased funding for the NIH. I feel bad for that man right now, and research in general.
Note on that 6 million annual, Trump costs that amount in just two weekends of his vacation golfing at his own hotel, paying himself the taxpayer money. He has so far taken five of these trips in seven weeks of being in office.
Why treat and save kids from cancer/other terminal illnesses when you can use that cash to deport and bar the re-entry of dangerous Mexicans who were caught jaywalking one time 10 years ago?
So Trump spends more money in two weekends' worth of golf trips than this place gets for cancer research in a year.
yanipheonu
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Real talk though, are they holding out for enough money for a Death Star or something?
BeforeU
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They are not even being evil here, just plain dumb. They want to throw money at something that is not going to work. Its their ego and ignorance that will cost tax payers shit ton of money.
Imperfected
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To be fair, that's some Crazy Kid Drawing Trend-Lines With Crayons logic on his part.
PepsimanVsJoe
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Priorities.
The only way any of Trump's plans could conceivably pass is by forcing a simple majority vote as part of the budget process, which is currently ongoing. In order to do that, US law requires that these bills be at least deficit neutral, which means that for every idiotic idea he wants to ramrod through, he needs an equal amount of cuts. After the budget process, Democrats will have an easier time blocking him.
That's why he started by trying to gut Obamacare, it would have given him money to play around with, but that failed. And Republicans still want "tax reform" (cuts), so really he's just fucked.
BolognaOni
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I mean, who knew that sequestration was so complicated right?
It was $601 billion in 2015.
Just like the Iraq war criminals that got away with enriching themselves at the expense of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives and trillions of taxpayer dollars. But that's all fine because W is a kooky old artist now.
Joel Was Right
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63m people voted for this.
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THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
Needs more gold and gaudiness. Like a fucking classless carny motherfucker is.
Fenderputty
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Escape Goat
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Fear and dustrust of The Other is powerful.
radioactivez0r
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At some point you wonder when the expenditures on housing and moving Trump and his family will actually far outgross the expenditures on all the programs he wants to eliminate.
CrocMother
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TeamLeftMatch
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Come one guys fuck health research and schools, you guys got a wall.
Is the wall to keep the Mexicans from coming or is it to keep Americans inside.
Scroll up. It already has in an instance of cancer research. And will continue to do so.
Imperfected
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You know, if Trump wanted to just built some massive, ostentatious monument for no reason other than to pad his own ego, I could almost get behind that. It would probably be the most acceptable idea he's ever had.
The problem is he wants to build a monument to racism, isolationism, and stupidity, and he wants to pay for it in the worst ways he can think of.
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