The Trump administration announced it’s 2021 budget proposal. The budget is reportedly set for 4.8 trillion dollars. This time around budget doesn’t include another round of tax cuts. The budget reportedly also cuts spending on nondefense activities. According to the Washington Post, that provides for saving 130 billion dollars by making changes to Medicare prescription drug pricing, another 292 billion in cuts to programs like Medicaid and food stamps.
The Post reports the proposal does not eliminate the federal deficit of big GOP fiscal target the cuts to Medicaid. Looks a lot different than the president’s initial campaign promises he tweeted in 2015 “I was the first and only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security Medicare and Medicaid. “ In a Tweet, Donald Trump wrote, “we will not be touching your Social Security or Medicare in fiscal twenty-one budget only the Democrats will destroy them by destroying our country’s greatest ever economy.”
The president’s new budget requests 2 billion dollars in border wall spending, right now, the project is estimated to cost 18 billion and is the most expensive Wall in the world. The president has been able to move $3.6 billion in military construction funding to pay for the long-promised border wall. Then Candidate Trump campaigned in 2016 on the promise that Mexico would pay for the Wall.
The border wall is also cutting through sacred at Native American lands. Construction started last week within Arizona’s Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. It’s a site with plans at plants and animals so rare the UN gave it a special designation. Arizona congressmen say the wall construction started blasting through Apache warrior burial sites. The Washington Post reports the blasting could destroy nearly two dozen archaeological sites inside the monument.
If you have time to spare and want to browse thru the budget: The 2021 Whitehouse Budget