Trump budget to fund wider wars by slashing domestic spending - World Socialist Web Site
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Trump budget to fund wider wars by slashing domestic spending
By Patrick Martin
17 March 2017
The budget outline issued by the Trump administration Thursday morning is a blueprint for social counterrevolution. It proposes a massive increase in spending on military operations and domestic repression, while slashing domestic social programs by as much as 30 percent and eliminating dozens of agencies and programs outright.
The document deals only with discretionary spending, funds that must be appropriated each year by Congress, accounting for about one-quarter of the $4 trillion that the US government will spend in the fiscal year that begins October 1.