Trump Budget Proposal: Proverb Analyst Ho Lee Chit Calls WTF Moment

Trump's 1st Federal Budget Proposal

(“America First” but “Most Americans Last”)

Troika, Trio, Triplets, Un-Tired Un-True Threesome

(OMB Dir. Mulvaney, Bannon “The Designer” and “The Decider”)

Original Post Follows This Update: 

WASHINGTON (USA TODAY) — President Trump’s first budget provides more than $4.5 billion in new spending to fight illegal immigration — not just by building a wall along the southern border but by adding more than 1,700 border officers, prosecutors and judges.

Beginning work on the wall comes with the biggest outlay — $2.6 billion — followed by $1.5 billion for expanded detention, transportation and removal of illegal immigrants. Note: The DHS estimates the wall will cost $21 billion with Congress providing the money and guess what? Taxpayers to foot the bill.

Ryan, McConnell, Trump here: Okay, build it - bill taxpayers NOT Mexico.

(You follow up on reimbursement with Mexico after done. Okee dokee)

I note: This wall is nothing more than another huge pie-in-the-sky Trump pet project just like his “Trump Tower” or some Casino that failed, or like Trump University – how and why do Republicans fail to see that?

Specifics:

1.  The largest staffing increases would be 1,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel and 500 new Border Patrol agents — all at a cost of $314 million. (Note: In executive orders issued five days after his inauguration, Trump called for adding 10,000 immigration officers and 5,000 border agents).
2.  Overall, the Department of Homeland Security would receive a $2.8 billion, or 7%, increase compared to the current year budget.

Other immigration-related additions in the budget proposal include:

1.  About $80 million to hire 75 new immigration judges to handle removal proceedings.
2.  Hiring 60 additional border enforcement prosecutors and 40 deputy U.S. marshals to catch and transport criminal aliens.
3.  Hiring 20 new attorneys to obtain land needed to secure the southwest border and another 20 attorneys and staff to handle immigration litigation.

7.  Another $15 million to begin implementation of mandatory nationwide use of the E-verify Program, which allows businesses to determine the legal status of new workers.

Related story from the Washington Post (March 7 news): Wall funding to cut U.S. Coast Guard, FEMA, and TSA (airport and border screeners).

The original post begins here:

Trump's 1st Proposed Budget = 4 Word Summary: Hurts people, not helps…

This budget proposal (Reuters) and here (NY Times) and here (LA Times) appears to mirror Stephen Bannon’s philosophy as expressed in his own words mentioned here (Politico): “I want to tear down and deconstruct the administrative state” and build “economic nationalism.”

Note: I call that another far-right/Alt-right Breitbart asinine view of America but not one for most Americans. Ergo: Those three above are the most-dangerous trio on Earth - that is: Trump is managed by Bannon (former Breitbart CEO; and with both heavy influence from the likes of an Alex Jones, and that includes Roger Stone (both conspiracy nuts whom Trump seeks support and advice from).

Quick Down and Dirty: Twelve of the government's 15 Cabinet agencies would absorb cuts under the president's proposal with the biggest losers being: AG; Labor; State; and the EPA. The big winners are DOD and DHS

This is more Flim-Flam Con-artist Carnival Hawker talk like that from a P.J. Barnum sales pitch as part of his “Art of the Deal” style: Borrow other people’s money, lose it, excuse it, borrow from someone else, lose it, write it off as “tax loss and start the same process all over again” –

This is classic TRUMP-A-NOMICS. Hold a lot of serious debt on broken promises while smiling and hiding it by whipping up more debt with more broken promises and never admitting failure.

The biggest scam in budget history re: Trump’s Wall:

Trump wants Congress to shell out $1.5 billion for the border wall with Mexico in the current fiscal year- that is enough for pilot projects to determine the best way to build it – and then $2.6 billion more in FY-18.

The estimate of the full cost of the wall will be included in the full budget, expected in mid-May, and will also project spending and revenues over 10 years.

Recall that Trump vowed a million times that “Mexico will pay for the wall.” Mexico for their part has flatly said it will not. Trump then went on to say he’s sent them the bill for reimbursement – even a bigger joke. FYI: The White House keeps saying the funding would be kick-started in the United States.

The spending plan seeks to shrink numerous federal programs:

1.  EPA would see massive layoffs (some 3,000 job losses) by eliminating more than 50 programs due to a 31 percent cut.

2.  Department of Labor would be slashed by 21 percent.

3.  HHS overall is reduced by 18 percent.

4.  National Institutes of Health would be even deeper.

Totally eliminate: 

1.  Amtrak's long-distance routes.

2.  National Endowment for the Arts.

3.  United States Institute of Peace.

4.  Chemical Safety Board.

5.  PBS, includes NPR.

6.  Climate change initiatives.

7.  The $250 million for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Global Climate Change Initiative.

8.  Clean Power Plan program and 3,000 EPA workers would lose jobs.

9.  Rules on emissions from power plants (seen as contributing to global warming).

10. Subsidies for airlines serving rural airports in Trump strongholds. 

Other Cuts:

1.  National Institutes of Health $5.8 billion cut (despite Trump's talk in a recent address to Congress of finding “cures to the illnesses that have always plagued us.”)

2.  Subsidies for the federal flood insurance program (a linchpin for the real estate market, especially in coastal southern states and the Northeast).

Noteworthy: 

1.  It doesn't address taxes, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, or any deficits.

2.  It has an increase in user fee of airline ticket tax by $1 per one-way trip.

3.  No mention of many sensitive programs such as community health centers, national parks, and payments for rural schools.

4.  Some sensitive domestic programs may be spared:  WIC, housing “vouchers” for the poor, Special Education, poor school districts, and support to historically black colleges and universities.

Does anyone besides me see or suspect a pattern in all that BS budget, or am I paranoid just like those in the White House (according to Politico and other reports)?

Seems to be a focus on hurting, not helping the most-needy, those who seek factual information (i.e., the science community vs the deniers), rural areas (odd: he won in those areas), and big areas (e.g., East and West Coasts where he did not win the popular vote).

So, is this just one big coincidence or a carefully-crafted plan?

Time will tell, but keep in mind, this proposal is probably DOA and thus we can expect one huge fight in Congress.

Stay tuned as I'm sure you will.