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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 12:27 PM Oct 2018

Trump ask Cabinet to cut next year's budgets by 5 percent

Source: Associated Press

Trump ask Cabinet to cut next year's budgets by 5 percent

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Oct 17, 2018, 1:31 PM ET

Dubbing it the "nickel plan," President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he's asking every Cabinet secretary to cut their next-year's budgets by 5 percent.

"Get rid of the fat. Get rid of the waste," Trump told members of his Cabinet during a meeting at the White House. "And I'm sure you can do it."

Trump said he couldn't ask for the spending cuts earlier because he was working with Congress to increase funding for the U.S. military.

Trump's budget request is due early next year. It's for the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1, 2019. He said he wants to keep defense spending at $700 billion.

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Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-cabinet-cut-years-budgets-percent-58563016
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Trump ask Cabinet to cut next year's budgets by 5 percent (Original Post) Eugene Oct 2018 OP
What a Republican thing to do. bearsfootball516 Oct 2018 #1
Maybe not an official war - but, packman Oct 2018 #2
SAVE MONEY CUT THE MILITARY ROB-ROX Oct 2018 #3

bearsfootball516

(6,369 posts)
1. What a Republican thing to do.
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 12:45 PM
Oct 2018

Cut Social Security, cut Medicare, cut 5 percent off the budget, but God do we need to increase military spending, even though we aren't even in a war!

 

packman

(16,296 posts)
2. Maybe not an official war - but,
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 01:21 PM
Oct 2018

I read recently that we have more troops in more areas doing more shit than any other recent time.

A short internet search yielded a lot of sites confirming this - here is one:

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-us-military-deaths-war-zones-are-first-time-six-years-716981

ROB-ROX

(767 posts)
3. SAVE MONEY CUT THE MILITARY
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 11:31 PM
Oct 2018

It has always been a WASTE of money. The crazy idiots are causing the debt to increase. Only when the military budget is a small fraction of the budget will there by PEACE and FREEDOM in this country and the world. I think those in government should be held account for all the assignations by DRONES......

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