Trump budget cuts bankroll new waste: James Bovard
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Trump proposes to devote almost all of the savings from cutting domestic programs into the Pentagon.
by James Bovard
President Trump’s proposed budget takes a big step towards draining the swamp in Washington. This is the first time since the Reagan era that a president has sought a wholesale demolition of boondoggles. On the other hand, Trump’s defense and homeland security spending increases will squander bounties that should be reserved for taxpayers, not bureaucrats and bombs...
The specter overhanging Trump’s budget is the possibility that he could jettison his campaign promises and plunge the nation more deeply into conflicts in Syria, Afghanistan, and elsewhere...
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