Trumps morally repugnant budget must be defeated: Sen. Bernie Sanders

[Hassin Bin Sober]

This is an OP Ed by Sanders.

Outfucking standing!!! This is a big deal.

Trump’s morally repugnant budget must be defeated: Sen. Bernie Sanders

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/03/27/president-trumps-budget-must-be-defeated-sanders-column/99543752/

This spending plan would be one of the cruelest in American history.


Mick Mulvaney, Donald Trump’s budget director, recently made a truly remarkable and cynical statement. He claimed the draconian cuts in the president’s budget were “one of the most compassionate things we can do” for a single mother living in Detroit.

Really? Let’s look at what Trump’s “compassion” actually means for that mother, her two children and tens of millions of other working-class Americans.

If Trump’s budget becomes law, the after school programs that provide both enrichment and a safe space for Mick Mulvaney’s hypothetical mother’s children while she is still at work would be ended.The Trump budget eliminates the federally-funded afterschool program— the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program. “Compassion,” according to the Trump administration, would throw 1.1 million children into the streets or leave them home alone instead of in a safe environment for care and learning when the school day ends.

In the classroom, teachers would be less prepared because this “compassionate” budget eliminates funding for professional development and support for teachers in high-need schools.

Bernie Sanders, the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, is a U.S. senator from Vermont.

More at the link

[beam me up scottie]

1. Brilliant! Show those hypocrites exactly who will suffer under this budget.

The budget could cut as much as $1 billion from Head Start which means some 95,000 children will be thrown out of early education and child-care programs, among them, this mother’s younger child. Moreover, according to Mulvaney, under the Trump budget, nutrition assistance for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) would be cut by $100 million, enough to eliminate nutrition assistance for nearly 150,000 people.

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This single mother’s parents would likewise suffer under this “compassionate” budget, as their weekly visits from Meals on Wheels could be eliminated, due to cuts to the Community Development Block Grant along with other programs. Next winter their house could have no heat because the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program has been abolished. As a result, they can no longer live independently. If Republicans eventually succeed with their plans for health care, nursing home care is out of the question, because of $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid, the largest source of funding for nursing home care.

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Trump’s 31% cut to the Environmental Protection Agency means this woman’s children would likely be breathing dirtier air and drinking contaminated water. And the 18% cut to the National Institutes of Health would mean that research for cures to some of the worst diseases facing humanity would be delayed.

Bernie really brought it home.

So proud that this man is in the Senate fighting for us.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

2. Kicking ass and taking names!!

[beam me up scottie]

3. I'm here to chew bubblegum and kick ass...

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. Lol. One of my favorites

[dalton99a]

5. Mulvaney is a sadistic monster.

Fuck him and his sadistic organization Freedom Caucus