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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts) Wed Oct 17, 2018, 03:00 PM Oct 2018

Trump ask Cabinet to cut next year's budgets by 5 percent

Dubbing it the "nickel plan," President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he's asking every Cabinet secretary to cut their next-year's budgets by 5 percent.

"Get rid of the fat. Get rid of the waste," Trump told members of his Cabinet during a meeting at the White House. "And I'm sure you can do it."

Trump said he couldn't ask for the spending cuts earlier because he was working with Congress to increase funding for the U.S. military. He said he wants to keep defense spending at $700 billion.

Trump said he's heard of a money-saving strategy called the "penny plan" to reduce federal spending by 1 percent. "Rather than go by the penny plan, we'll go by the nickel plan," he said. Some Cabinet secretaries can probably cut more than 5 percent, he said.
"I believe we can actually do it easily," he said.

https://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/Trump-ask-Cabinet-to-cut-next-year-s-budgets-by-5-13314744.php

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Trump ask Cabinet to cut next year's budgets by 5 percent (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Oct 2018 OP

Can we cut him out with the "nickel plan" ... CatMor Oct 2018 #1

Now this made me laugh..... a kennedy Oct 2018 #5

5 percent of the military budget would be $35 billion leftstreet Oct 2018 #2

start with cutting back on travel Retrograde Oct 2018 #3

Trump can go to Mar-a-Lago once a YEAR jmowreader Oct 2018 #6

Of course, why would every department NEED a 5 percent cut? Johonny Oct 2018 #4

CatMor

(6,212 posts)

1. Can we cut him out with the "nickel plan" ...

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Wed Oct 17, 2018, 03:15 PM

Oct 2018

that would be getting rid of the fat and the waste.

a kennedy

(29,705 posts)

5. Now this made me laugh.....

Reply to CatMor (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 17, 2018, 05:41 PM

Oct 2018

leftstreet

(36,112 posts)

2. 5 percent of the military budget would be $35 billion

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Wed Oct 17, 2018, 03:17 PM

Oct 2018

Start there, asshole

Retrograde

(10,152 posts)

3. start with cutting back on travel

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Wed Oct 17, 2018, 04:03 PM

Oct 2018

for secretaries and administrators. then cut Donnie’s gulf junkets down to one a month.

jmowreader

(50,562 posts)

6. Trump can go to Mar-a-Lago once a YEAR

Reply to Retrograde (Reply #3)

Thu Oct 18, 2018, 12:01 AM

Oct 2018

The SOB has a golf course in the DC area. He can play it.

Johonny

(20,881 posts)

4. Of course, why would every department NEED a 5 percent cut?

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Wed Oct 17, 2018, 05:33 PM

Oct 2018

Only morons do across the board cuts like this. Real managers would have the guts to actually manage. Weak managers just share the pain because it's too much work to actually manage.

This skips the whole real issue. Which of course would require admitting the tax cuts were insane, but you know that already.

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