President Trump’s Budget: A Budget At Odds With His Promises to the American People
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Here is a look at how the President's budget breaks his promises to Americans:
PROMISE BROKEN: HELPING AMERICANS AND THEIR FAMILIES GET AHEAD
PROMISE: "The well-being of the American citizen and worker will be placed second to none - and boy do I mean second to none." [Remarks, 4/18/17]
BROKEN: Trump's budget would drastically cut investments that help working Americans get ahead, such as education and job training. His budget would also gut anti-poverty programs that help Americans work their way into the middle class. In addition, his budget would target federal workers who support the well-being and defense or our nation.
*Education and Work Study Programs: "Funding for college work-study programs would be cut in half, public-service loan forgiveness would end and hundreds of millions of dollars that public schools could use for mental health, advanced coursework and other services would vanish under a Trump administration plan to cut
*Nutrition Assistance: "
*Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit: "Spending on the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit would also be reduced by
*Federal employees: "The budget proposal
PROMISE BROKEN: NO CUTS TO MEDICAID OR SOCIAL SECURITY
PROMISE: "I was the first & only potential
BROKEN: Trump's budget proposes drastic cuts to
*"In total, the budget proposes cutting
*"Trump's decision to include the
*"The president also strongly opposed cuts to
PROMISE BROKEN: STRENGTHENING NATIONAL SECURITY
PROMISE: "We will make America safe again!" [Inauguration Speech, 1/20/17]
BROKEN: Trump's budget slashes funding for the
*"In 2018, it would shift
PROMISE BROKEN: MAKING
PROMISE: "
BROKEN: Trump's budget includes taxpayer funding for his border wall.
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Schumer Floor Remarks: The Trump Budget is One Giant, Brazen Broken Promise to the Working Men And Women of America
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