Trump budget to cut Medicaid, food stamps -- put 'taxpayer first,' officials say

[Cebu_4_2]

Trump budget to cut Medicaid, food stamps -- put 'taxpayer first,' officials say

President Trump is calling for major cuts to Medicaid and food stamps -- alongside increases for national and border security -- as part of what administration officials call a "taxpayer-first budget" set to be released Tuesday.

White House budget director Mick Mulvaney drew up the blueprint, which he said would balance the budget by 2027.

"This is the first time that an administration has written a budget through the perspective of the people paying the taxes," Mulvaney told reporters Monday night.

The White House plan leaves Social Security and Medicare untouched, but calls for $800 billion in cuts to Medicaid and a $193 billion reduction in food stamps over the next ten years.

"We are no longer going to measure compassion by the number of people on those programs. We're going to measure compassion by how many people we can get off those programs," said Mulvaney, who added that there would be a work requirement for some Americans to continue receiving food stamps.

"If you're on food stamps and you're able-bodied, then we need you to go to work," Mulvaney said.

The budget blueprint also provides $2.6 billion for border security, including $1.6 billion for the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, one of Trump's cornerstone campaign promises. The remaining $1 billion will be used to bolster exiting border defenses by hiring new agents and upgrading equipment used to track illegal crossings.

Mulvaney will present the budget to lawmakers on Tuesday and testify before House and Senate committees later this week. The fleshed-out proposal follows up on a partial release in March that targeted the budgets of domestic agencies and foreign aid for cuts averaging 10 percent.

Fox News' Kristin Fisher and Fox Business Network's Adam Shapiro contributed to this report.

[cheka.]

some guy i was listening to on tv said no actual cuts - just lowering the growth rate of the increases in spending on the fs army

[crimethink]

"Put taxpayers first":


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How many millions is his trip costing the taxpayers?

I didn't know Trump was President of Israel. Oh, wait...

[Ares]

And it's Dead On Arrival in Congress as neither party will support it.

This still fullfills a campaign promise but did anyone actually think that they would willingly cut off slush fund programs?

[Jewboo]

White House budget director Mick Mulvaney drew up the blueprint, which he said would balance the budget by 2027.


:rolleyes:

[hoarder]

:rolleyes:The best way to balance the budget is to quit making interest payments on money issued out of thin air by Jews.

[singular_me]

so lets see and instill more divide and rule... rep vs dems is just doing fine

[Ares]

so lets see and instill more divide and rule... rep vs dems is just doing fine

Where exactly do you see that since both parties are going to refuse to support this bill?

[C.Martel]

The jew and only the jew is put first by these "presidents". So is (((taxpayers))) some new code word for jew? Or is it some excuse to keep the ponzi scheme going a few more years.

The Democrats ushered in these cuts with last years', "if you live in a white neighborhood (https://ctmirror.org/2016/01/18/food-stamps-ending-for-some-in-towns-with-high-employment/), we are mandating you to get off food stamps, if you live in a black neighborhood, please stay on food stamps and we will help other blacks sign up".

I am waiting for cuts to Social Security, "what people paid into social security, they will get back, but what employers paid into it will be regarded as taxes paid to the general fund and will not be given out as social security".

[7th trump]

"Put taxpayers first":


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How many millions is his trip costing the taxpayers?

I didn't know Trump was President of Israel. Oh, wait...

You must be a real prize to everyone around you.

1. Racist!
2. Egotistical
3. Unpatriotic
4. Know it all.
5. Better than anyone else.
6. Never happy
7. Nothing good to say
8. Hates everybody

Did I miss anything?

[ximmy]

You must be a real prize to everyone around you.

1. Racist!
2. Egotistical
3. Unpatriotic
4. Know it all.
5. Better than anyone else.
6. Never happy
7. Nothing good to say
8. Hates everybody

Did I miss anything?

yes...

9. angry young man

[cheka.]

oil agenda. alaska deal sounds like a winner - is lindsey williams still alive? his frozen saudi arabia about to get tapped?

bad news to cali, losing more of their elec system to skype

spr being sold off - no big deal. we have massive production scattered across US


https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-23/trump-proposes-selling-off-half-the-u-s-strategic-oil-reserve

The White House plan to trim the national debt includes selling off half of the nation’s emergency oil stockpile and the entire backup gasoline supply, part of a broad series of changes proposed by President Donald Trump to the federal government’s role in energy markets.

Trump’s first complete budget proposal, released Tuesday, would raise $500 million in fiscal year 2018 -- and as much $16.6 billion over the next decade -- by drawing down the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

“We think it’s a responsible thing to do," Mick Mulvaney, head of the White House Office of Management and Budget, told reporters. The “risk goes down dramatically when we have increased domestic production like we have today.”

The proposal also seeks to boost government revenues by allowing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, ending the practice of sharing oil royalties with states along the Gulf of Mexico and selling off government-owned electricity transmission lines in the West. Like much of the budget, those moves are likely to face opposition on Capitol Hill.

Presidential budget proposals typically undergo significant changes in Congress, but they provide insight into White House priorities.

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve currently holds 687.7 million barrels of oil in salt caverns and tanks at designated locations in Texas and Louisiana, which allow for quick distribution when natural disasters or unplanned incidents occur. The White House budget plan calls for selling 270 million barrels of reserve oil over the next decade beyond already planned sales, and it proposes closing two of the four Gulf Coast reserve sites. After all those sales, the reserve would be about 260 million barrels, it said.

The plan also seeks to close the Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve, an emergency gasoline stockpile created in 2012 after Hurricane Sandy left some New York gas stations without fuel. It holds 1 million barrels of gasoline, all of which would be sold in fiscal year 2018 under the White House proposal.
Congressional Measures

Laws enacted in 2015 and 2016 call for the sale of nearly 190 million barrels of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve between 2017 and 2025 to raise money for unrelated government programs. Those sales would cut the reserve by about 27 percent. Slashing the stockpile in half beyond that would require legal changes, as the reserve must now contain a minimum of 450 million barrels.

Critics said the move risks undercutting an essential safeguard created after the 1973 oil embargo to help the U.S. weather supply shocks.

"The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is America’s only formal short-term line of defense against oil supply disruptions and price spikes," said Robbie Diamond, president of Securing America’s Future Energy, a group aiming to pare U.S. dependence on oil. "While we’ve been lulled into a false sense of complacency by the current period of relatively low oil prices, disruptions and volatility in the oil market are alive and well."
Oil, Gas Proposals

Trump is also seeking to raise money with two other proposed changes -- one that would be cheered by the oil industry and another that would draw its ire.

He projects raising $1.8 billion over the next decade by opening up the 19-million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas development. The idea of allowing drilling in the refuge for its estimated 12 billion barrels of crude has long been championed by Alaska Republicans, including Senator Lisa Murkowski, who heads the appropriations subcommittee in charge of Interior spending.

But it’s anathema to environmentalists, who have successfully blocked ANWR drilling plans from advancing on Capitol Hill by stoking concerns about threats to the polar bears, caribou, wolves and other animals that live in the territory.

"For 30 years, Congress has voted nearly 50 times on whether or not to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, yet our nation’s largest and wildest refuge remains protected today, thanks to the overwhelming support of the American people," said Kristen Miller, interim executive director of the Alaska Wilderness League.

Trump’s budget request suggests ANWR leasing could begin to pay off in fiscal 2022, with $100 billion in projected revenue that year. In addition to environmentalists’ opposition, it’s unclear how much appetite energy companies would have for the reserve. Monster discoveries there could yield decades of oil production, but the cost of operations in northern Alaska could discourage the activity amid modest crude prices and the domestic shale boom.
Offshore Royalties
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Trump’s budget request also revives an Obama-era proposal to cut the payments Gulf Coast states collect from offshore drilling near their coastlines, a change that would translate to an extra $3.56 billion in federal revenue over the next decade. Under a 2006 law, four Gulf states -- Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas -- now claim 37.5 percent of the royalties that oil and gas companies send the federal government in exchange for drilling rights and production on some Gulf of Mexico leases.

Trump’s move echoes Obama’s attempt to divert some of those royalty payments. And his bid to quash state revenue sharing is likely to meet the same fierce resistance that Obama’s plans did. Just as they did under Obama, Gulf Coast lawmakers will fight to defend those payments, which help support restoration programs.

The budget also proposes restarting the Nuclear Waste Fund Fee in 2020, a sign that the administration is planning to have a permanent storage site for that waste up and running by that time -- presumably at a site in Nevada known as Yucca Mountain. That fee would raise nearly $3.1 billion over 10 years, it estimates.

The White House foresees $2.4 billion in additional revenue in 2019 from the sale of federally-owned transmission lines in the West. Those power lines mostly carry electricity from government-owned dams to metro areas.

[crimethink]

Trump’s first complete budget proposal, released Tuesday, would raise $500 million in fiscal year 2018 -- and as much $16.6 billion over the next decade -- by drawing down the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

“We think it’s a responsible thing to do," Mick Mulvaney, head of the White House Office of Management and Budget, told reporters. The “risk goes down dramatically when we have increased domestic production like we have today.”

This speaks to Trump's incompetence. Or malevolence.

The SPR and NGSR are national security assets. It doesn't matter that we have vastly increased domestic oil production. The point is that the SPR is ready to go, at an instant. 450,000,000 barrels is about three week's worth. The closure of the NGSR is an abomination.

The American people's assets are being raped from them, just like happened in Russia in the early 1990s. Who exactly will be profiting from the sale of these assets (including the WAPA power lines), only the (((nose))) knows.

[singular_me]

masses are so myopic that the so-called liberals will continue to blame trump no matter what. However the cuts, if passed, will result in more whining and eventually demanding to overrun the budget cut decision from the left (people and lawmakers).

even if both sides reject the cuts, it doesnt really matter.... problem (cuts), reaction (call to reverse the decision or find a bipartisan solution), solution (all good for fema/class war/universal basic income)

the disintegration of social programs benefits basic income


Where exactly do you see that since both parties are going to refuse to support this bill?

[osoab]

yes...

9. angry Iowan/Suckeye

fify

[osoab]

oil agenda. alaska deal sounds like a winner - is lindsey williams still alive? his frozen saudi arabia about to get tapped?

bad news to cali, losing more of their elec system to skype

spr being sold off - no big deal. we have massive production scattered across US


I thought I read somewhere that the spr infrastructure was crap and they had to draw down.

Trying to find some info on a draw down I found this from 2015.


U.S. Plans to Sell Down Strategic Oil Reserve to Raise Cash (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-27/u-s-plans-to-sell-down-strategic-oil-reserve-to-raise-cash)


The U.S. plans to sell millions of barrels of crude oil from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve from 2018 until 2025 under a budget deal reached on Monday night by the White House and top lawmakers from both parties.
The proposed sale, included in a bill posted on the White House website, equates to more than 8 percent of the 695 million barrels of reserves, held in four sites along the Gulf of Mexico coast. Sales are due to start in 2018 at an annual rate of 5 million barrels, rising to 10 million by 2023 and totaling 58 million barrels by the end of the period. The proceeds will be “deposited into the general fund of the Treasury,” according to the bill.

....

The sale is the second time the U.S. has raised cash from the reserve, created as a counter-balance to the power of Arab producers after the first oil crisis of 1973-74. The U.S. may sell also additional barrels to cover a $2 billion program from 2017 to 2020 to modernize the strategic reserve, including building new pipelines.

[cheka.]

This speaks to Trump's incompetence. Or malevolence.

The SPR and NGSR are national security assets. It doesn't matter that we have vastly increased domestic oil production. The point is that the SPR is ready to go, at an instant. 450,000,000 barrels is about three week's worth. The closure of the NGSR is an abomination.

The American people's assets are being raped from them, just like happened in Russia in the early 1990s. Who exactly will be profiting from the sale of these assets (including the WAPA power lines), only the (((nose))) knows.

from what i've seen spr is also a tool for nyc.dc -- for some reason they like to buy high and sell low when loading/unloading the things. reeks of market manipulation (or price rigging...or or)

[Cebu_4_2]

from what i've seen spr is also a tool for nyc.dc -- for some reason they like to buy high and sell low when loading/unloading the things. reeks of market manipulation (or price rigging...or or)


They want to strangle the lower class with high gas prices again. Start another depression?

[Twisted Titan]

"We are no longer going to measure compassion by the number of people on those programs. We're going to measure compassion by how many people we can get off those programs," said Mulvaney, who added that there would be a work requirement for some Americans to continue receiving food stamps.


Democrats almost shit themselves into oblivion when Mulveney said that

[Horn]

Idk, sounds like an endround clumsy budget approach.

May be there is no other way for them to afford more graceful measures?

Typically there's a give in one area to offset a take away in another.

No more sway left.

[Jewboo]

Trump budget to cut Medicaid... 'taxpayer first,' officials say




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