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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's Doomed Budget Helps Democrats by Hurting Republicans
Nobody likes the proposed cuts to Medicare and Social Security
By Joshua Green
Nearly every analyst in Washington agrees that President Trumps new budget blueprinta grab-bag of fantastical growth projections and policy demands Congress will never meetis dead on arrival. Every White House budget is, to some extent, a wish list that serves chiefly as a messaging vehicle. But even Trumps allies find little to love in the 2020 White House budget plan. Its made them irrelevant for the most important issues up on Capitol Hill, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, budget chief for President George W. Bush, told Bloomberg Television.
Trumps budget may not resonate with Congress, but as a new memo from the Democratic Super-PAC Priorities USA points out, its bound to resonate with voters in a way that could backfire on Republicans. Heres why: The budgets hallmark huge growth forecast, billions in border-wall funding, and deep cuts to entitlement spending are meant to play as muscular displays of commitment to two issuesborder security and deficit reductionthat hes failed to deliver on, while masking the cost of one he has, his tax cut.
But the math required to balance Trumps budget and offset the revenue-draining effects of his tax cut entails spending $845 billion less on Medicare and another $25 billion less on Social Security over the next decade, things he vowed never to do while he was running for president. Save Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security without cuts, Trump said in 2015. Have to do it. Trumps promise to protect these programs was popular and set him apart from the other Republican contenders.
His reversal is unpopular.
Our post-election polling in November 2018 found that a plan to cut Social Security and Medicare to pay for Trumps tax cuts for the wealthy was the top concern among new Democratic votersand also for voters who supported Trump in 2016 and then changed camps in the 2018 midterms, the Priorities USA memo notes. Trumps budget does exactly that.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-14/trump-s-doomed-budget-helps-democrats-by-hurting-republicans
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Trump's Doomed Budget Helps Democrats by Hurting Republicans (Original Post)
DonViejo
Mar 2019
OP
It was really stupid to include those cuts when the budget was a non-starter from day one.
TwilightZone
Mar 2019
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smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)1. We have to hammer him on this going into the next election.
Repeat it over and over again and let the republican party own THIS and Trump! Maybe people will finally wake up and realize what the republicans really stand for.
TwilightZone
(25,471 posts)2. It was really stupid to include those cuts when the budget was a non-starter from day one.
Not sure who on the right thought that was a good idea. Sending surrogates out to float trial balloons - like they usually do - would have been less harmful politically. Committing to it on paper was dumb.