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Trump budget to slash entitlements by $1.7 trillion!
Axios via Associated Press ^ | 05/22/2017 | Pablo Martinez Monsivais

Posted on 05/22/2017 8:08:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 05/22/2017 8:08:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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I can already hear the screaming.


2 posted on 05/22/2017 8:10:18 AM PDT by henkster (Orwell, Rand and Huxley would not be proud of our society, but they'd have no trouble recognizing it)
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To: SeekAndFind

Great news. Sure throws water on the navy ship story. Trump’s brilliant period.


3 posted on 05/22/2017 8:11:11 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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I wish.

I don’t receive entitlements but I am forced to pay for them for others. I don’t even get to choose to whom I give charity. It is forcibly stolen from me and given to those chosen by government.


4 posted on 05/22/2017 8:12:16 AM PDT by Principled (OMG I'm so tired of all this winning....)
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MMMMMMmmmm....Dem frustration. Music to my ears.

I'd suspect that millions of illegals self-deporting will shave a few percentage points out of the budget, too.

5 posted on 05/22/2017 8:12:27 AM PDT by wbill
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Yep. Me too. The liberals will scream that he’s taking food out of the mouths of babies. All the usual stuff will be said. Lack of compassion for the poor and all that. Taking food out of people’s mouths. Evicting people from their comfy Section 8 housing. Women and children and vulnerable minorities hurt hardest. Etc.


6 posted on 05/22/2017 8:12:30 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: SeekAndFind
The source tells me there'll be an "emphasis on work requirements for able-bodied people" to save money on these social welfare programs.

That'll make the "never-worker's" heads explode!

7 posted on 05/22/2017 8:13:11 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: SeekAndFind

I have a problem with describing Social Security & Medicare as entitlements seeing I paid into them for almost 60 years.


8 posted on 05/22/2017 8:13:33 AM PDT by Retired Chemist
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To: SeekAndFind

Congress will change those cuts to little or nothing is my prediction.


9 posted on 05/22/2017 8:14:07 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Ride To The Sound Of The Guns)
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believe it when I see it...Then I’ll really believe it when it’s passed.


10 posted on 05/22/2017 8:14:08 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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Another way to reduce the budget:

Reduce the number of weeks one can receive unemployment money back to the 26 weeks it was for years!

11 posted on 05/22/2017 8:14:44 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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Wailing, gnashing of teeth...


12 posted on 05/22/2017 8:14:51 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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The libs are already inking up the boo-hoo presses. Expect to drown in stories of starving crippled children and whip-wielding overseers flogging a new generation of welfare slaves.


13 posted on 05/22/2017 8:15:41 AM PDT by IronJack
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>>>Trump budget to slash entitlements by $1.7 trillion!

Which is exactly why it will never happen. So...I'm not sure what the excitement is for. The democrats will not go for it...and all they need is 22ish spineless republicans...and this is toast. The swamp is never going to go for it and the GOP is not going to shut the government down to support it.

This is DOA. Not being a debbie-downer...just being a realist. If anyone wants to make a wager...I'm game...have your pay-pal ready.

14 posted on 05/22/2017 8:15:43 AM PDT by NELSON111
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DOA.. Ryan and The Turtle will see to it.

The swamp needs more draining.


15 posted on 05/22/2017 8:17:23 AM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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They will change the - to a + You can take that to the bank.


16 posted on 05/22/2017 8:18:24 AM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: SeekAndFind

No President’s budget gets enacted.


17 posted on 05/22/2017 8:18:52 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The Washington Post is Jeff Bezos' Fake News unregulated SuperPAC.)
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The $1.7 trillion in costs are over ten years. Are $170 billion per year in cuts enough to offset the planned increases in spending for Defense, Infrastructure, and Child Care and still balance the budget?


18 posted on 05/22/2017 8:19:00 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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That has been changed to 26 weeks years ago....at least in Virginia, so I assume that is true elsewhere.


19 posted on 05/22/2017 8:19:37 AM PDT by Dave W
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Conservatives will love it; moderates BARKING MOONBAT LEFTISTS will probably hate it.

FTFY

20 posted on 05/22/2017 8:20:04 AM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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