A federal spending freeze, implemented by President Trump, disrupted essential services like Meals on Wheels, raising concerns about the administration's commitment to social programs. While the freeze was eventually lifted, the incident revealed Trump's plan for drastic federal spending cuts, prioritizing tax benefits for the wealthy over the needs of everyday Americans.
Meals on Wheels services, which are 37 percent funded by the federal government, were disrupted in several states by the freeze on the federal grant used by the program, which provides food to homebound seniors. This photo shows program volunteers in Redlands. hundreds of billions of dollars in spending triggered anguish, bafflement and anger in San Diego and across the nation after it paralyzed government programs and government-funded services relied on by millions of people.
This will surprise those contrarians who say Trump’s popularity among non-Republicans is due in large part to the fact he for years has ignored the GOP elites who want to reduce spending on Social Security and Medicare or even privatize parts of the giant entitlement programs. This will also make small-government types chortle over the notion that Trump is actually one of them.
The key to pulling this off is the budget tool that Trump can use to head off a filibuster that otherwise could only be ended by a bipartisan vote of 60 senators. Under the complex budget reconciliation— used to adopt Democratic initiatives and Republican ones alike — budgets can be adopted on a simple majority vote of both the House and Senate if a fairly credible case can be made that they are
Only by simultaneously delivering spending cuts of hundreds of billions of dollars. If the cuts shutter programs that lift the quality of life for millions of people — if they stall urgently needed medical research — if they bring ruin to families which rely on federally supported nonprofits — so be it.
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