Opinion: Trump’s budget reflects his party’s confusion and contempt for governance
Acting Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought discusses the president's budget proposal at the White House on Monday. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 12 at 10:15 AM Presidents’ budgets are always dead on arrival in Congress, but some have rigor mortis well before they arrive.
Let’s take entitlements first. He proposes block-granting Medicaid . As for Medicare, the cuts are significant, proposing “to slow spending on Medicare, the federal program that gives health insurance to older Americans, by $845 billion over the next 10 years.” This reflects not a desire to cover more people or to provide better service or to lower medical costs substantially but to make cuts so the giant deficits his tax cuts created don’t look so bad. It’s the sort of budget that suggests Republicans are living in another political universe in which people are pining for smaller government. No, they want better government. And this one makes it infinitely worse.
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