Democrats grill Trump's budget chief on White House spending plan by alexnazaryan
“The president's budget is a living, breathing fact check on all of the public lies that he's told relative to his policy priorities,” thundered Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, a prominent House Democrat.
“It’s not just his commitment that he has repeatedly articulated,” Vought said of Trump’s frequent, if vague, assertions that he would come up with a system that is both superior to, and cheaper than, the one created by the Affordable Care Act. “He has put forward plans, or supported plans, that do this.”
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., listed the administration’s proposed cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security disability insurance, making the point that Trump was set on harming the very seniors and “forgotten Americans” he had once promised to protect.If the question was meant to be rhetorical, Vought did not take it that way. “No, you’re not,” he shot back loudly. “The president fully protects Social Security and Medicare in this budget.
In his opening statement, Vought tried to justify the administration’s manifold proposed cuts by invoking fiscal responsibility. “Washington’s pastime of spending without consequence must be stopped as it threatens long-term economic prosperity,” he said. The budget does propose to drastically reduce the federal deficit, which is nearly $1 trillion, but critics have called that calculation “entirely dishonest” and predicated on “phony” projections.
“I can’t tell you based on where it started versus where it ended, but we lost manufacturing jobs,” Vought said of Obama’s job record. He put the number of manufacturing jobs lost under Obama at 200,000.As for what he saw as a potent symbol of government waste, he invoked the purchase of a Bob Dylan sculpture for the U.S. Embassy in Mozambique, incorrectly asserting that it cost $1 million.
“I’m stunned,” Jackson Lee concluded, a reaction that appeared to be widely shared by her Democratic colleagues. Republicans on the budget committee, for their part, defended Vought, while insisting that Democrats had produced no budgetary vision of their own.
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