thephan wrote:I think you might be able to fine Sean Spiecer over at Old Ebbitt Grill just about now given the press conference he will need to joust his way through. I almost feel sorry for him.

pacino wrote:

azrider wrote:It just seems like everyone is calling everyone a damn nazi who you don't agree with. Both sides do it. Apparently I'm not the only one tired of this...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-39266863

Decent read, especially towards the end.

nice timing

Cuts $3.7 billion in grants for teacher training, after-school and summer programs, and aid programs to first-generation and low-income students

Eliminates the $3 billion Community Development Block Grant program

Eliminates funding for the 49 National Historic Sites

Eliminates the Senior Community Service Employment Program, which helps low-income seniors find work

Eliminates climate-change prevention programs, including pledged payments to U.N. climate-change programs

Eliminates funding for many new transit projects and support for long-distance Amtrak trains

Cuts $499 million from the TIGER grant program, which has funded dozens of road, transit and other projects

Eliminates grants for Community Development Financial Institutions, which provide financial services in economically distressed neighborhoods

Eliminates more than 50 programs and 3,200 jobs in EPA

Eliminates all $148 million for the National Endowment for the Arts and all $148 million for the National Endowment for the Humanities

Eliminates the $230 million Institute of Museum and Library Services

Eliminates the $445 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports public television and radio, including PBS and NPR

Decreases funding for the National Institutes of Health and certain programs to train health professionals

"Significantly" reduces federal work-study aid to college students

Cuts $250 million from coastal research programs that ready communities for rising seas and worsening storms

Youseff wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-presidential-budget-2018-proposal/?utm_term=.d6bc2e7784c9

Trump's budget

*extremely meth head voice* the Democratic party has lost me, man. lesser of two evils, maan.

Cuts $3.7 billion in grants for teacher training, after-school and summer programs, and aid programs to first-generation and low-income students

Eliminates the $3 billion Community Development Block Grant program

Eliminates funding for the 49 National Historic Sites

Eliminates the Senior Community Service Employment Program, which helps low-income seniors find work

Eliminates climate-change prevention programs, including pledged payments to U.N. climate-change programs

Eliminates funding for many new transit projects and support for long-distance Amtrak trains

Cuts $499 million from the TIGER grant program, which has funded dozens of road, transit and other projects

Eliminates grants for Community Development Financial Institutions, which provide financial services in economically distressed neighborhoods

Eliminates more than 50 programs and 3,200 jobs in EPA

Eliminates all $148 million for the National Endowment for the Arts and all $148 million for the National Endowment for the Humanities

Eliminates the $230 million Institute of Museum and Library Services

Eliminates the $445 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports public television and radio, including PBS and NPR

Decreases funding for the National Institutes of Health and certain programs to train health professionals

"Significantly" reduces federal work-study aid to college students

Cuts $250 million from coastal research programs that ready communities for rising seas and worsening storms

• Cuts FEMA state and local grant funding by $667 million, including the Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grant Program and Homeland Security Grant Program

Youseff wrote:also,

• Cuts FEMA state and local grant funding by $667 million, including the Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grant Program and Homeland Security Grant Program

wish we had a recent example of what happens when FEMA isn't properly managed.....