{"id":10185,"date":"2017-03-19T08:25:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T12:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=10185"},"modified":"2017-03-19T12:40:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T16:40:12","slug":"usa-today-trump-budget-cuts-bankroll-new-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/19\/usa-today-trump-budget-cuts-bankroll-new-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Today: Trump Budget Cuts Bankroll New Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"module-position-Pz1KbQ-uA_k\" class=\"storytopbar-bucket story-headline-module story-story-headline-module\">\n<h1 class=\"asset-headline\">USA TODAY, March 19, 2017<a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/175px-USA_Today_Logo.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-10189\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/175px-USA_Today_Logo.svg_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"94\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/175px-USA_Today_Logo.svg_.png 175w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/175px-USA_Today_Logo.svg_-150x94.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"asset-headline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2017\/03\/19\/trump-budget-cuts-waste-james-bovard-column\/99254470\/\">Trump budget cuts bankroll new waste<\/a><\/h1>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"module-position-Pz1KbQ_tDJY\" class=\"storytopbar-bucket story-byline-module story-story-byline-module\">\n<div class=\"asset-metabar\"><span class=\"asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item\"> by James Bovard\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"module-position-Pz1KbRAW2iA\" class=\"storytopbar-bucket piano-module story-piano-module\"><\/section>\n<section id=\"module-position-Pz1KbRA3Wzg\" class=\"storytopbar-bucket bounce-exchange-module story-bounce-exchange-module\"><\/section>\n<section id=\"module-position-Pz1KbRBLLao\" class=\"storytopbar-bucket google-survey-module story-google-survey-module\"><\/section>\n<p><!-- p402_premium class is utilized by Google Consumer Surveys --><\/p>\n<div class=\"asset-double-wide double-wide p402_premium\">\n<div id=\"module-position-Pz1KbRHNk-8\" class=\"story-asset story-leadin-asset\">\n<h4 class=\"lead-in\"><em>Trump proposes to devote almost all of the savings from cutting domestic programs into the Pentagon.<\/em><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"module-position-Pz1KbRHOIaU\" class=\"story-asset story-metadata-asset\">\n<div class=\"article-metadata-wrap\">\n<section id=\"module-position-Pz1KbRERRGg\" class=\"storymetadata-bucket expandable-photo-module story-expandable-photo-module\">\n<aside class=\"single-photo expandable-collapsed\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\">\n<div style=\"width: 544px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"expand-img-horiz\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/ed147b00e6abe7a1006f3e4aab0c9d8e92a8dd46\/c=324-0-5176-3648&amp;r=x404&amp;c=534x401\/local\/-\/media\/2017\/03\/16\/USATODAY\/USATODAY\/636252780196527646-EPA-USA-TRUMP-AIRCRAFT-CARRIER-89212181.JPG\" alt=\"EPA USA TRUMP AIRCRAFT CARRIER POL GOVERNMENT USA VA\" width=\"534\" height=\"401\" data-mycapture-sm-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/4044b1e7645488621f157de466cf1a990870caa2\/r=500x333\/local\/-\/media\/2017\/03\/16\/USATODAY\/USATODAY\/636252780196527646-EPA-USA-TRUMP-AIRCRAFT-CARRIER-89212181.JPG\" data-mycapture-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/media\/2017\/03\/16\/USATODAY\/USATODAY\/636252780196527646-EPA-USA-TRUMP-AIRCRAFT-CARRIER-89212181.JPG\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Trump next to Secretary of Defense James Mattis in Newport News, Va., on March 2, 2017.(Photo: Jim Lo Scalzo, epa)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"image-credit-wrap\"><span class=\"inline-share-btn inline-share-btn-facebook\" data-uotrack=\"InlineShareFacebookBtn\" data-share-method=\"facebook\"><span class=\"inline-share-count inline-share-count-facebook\">\u00a0P<\/span><\/span>resident Trump\u2019s proposed budget takes a big step towards draining the swamp in Washington. This is the first time since the Reagan era that a president has sought a wholesale demolition of boondoggles. On the other hand, Trump\u2019s defense and homeland security spending increases will squander bounties that should be reserved for taxpayers, not bureaucrats and bombs.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- cxenseparse_end --><!-- cxenseparse_start -->Regardless of whether Trump can cajole Congress into imposing the cuts, Americans should welcome candor on an array of federal programs that should have been decimated or abolished long ago:\u00a0<!-- cxenseparse_start --><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>The Housing and Urban Development budget takes one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trump-administration-considers-6-billion-cut-to-hud-budget\/2017\/03\/08\/1757e8e8-03ab-11e7-b1e9-a05d3c21f7cf_story.html?utm_term=.9846063ee7a0\">the biggest hits \u2014 down $6 billion or 13%<\/a>. The administration aims to sharply cut spending on Section 8 rental vouchers, which are notorious for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncjrs.gov\/App\/publications\/abstract.aspx?ID=251114\">redistributing violent crime <\/a>from public housing projects to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abtassociates.com\/reports\/2003302754569_71451.pdf\"> previously safe urban and suburban neighborhoods<\/a>. HUD\u2019s flagship HOME Investment Partnerships Program, which provides grants to states and localities, is also in the budget crosshairs. That program is such a fiasco that HUD was not even aware that hundreds of projects it was bankrolling had not been built until a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/a-pattern-of-hud-projects-stalled-or-abandoned\/2011\/03\/14\/AFWelh3G_story.html?utm\"><em>Washington Post <\/em>investigation compiled hundreds of aerial photos <\/a>of empty lots.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>Trump calls for <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/trump-proposes-eliminating-national-endowment-arts-893744\">abolishing both the National Endowment for the Arts<\/a>\u00a0and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The vast majority of spending for the arts comes from private pockets. America does not need a culture commissariat to give federal seals of approval to efforts that please Washington bureaucrats. There is no justice in taxing dishwashers in Arkansas to subsidize programs such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/a-silenced-shakespeare-in-washington-1436825550\">Synetic Theater\u2019s <em>Silent Shakespeare<\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0in which actors gyrate and grope in lieu of delivering the richest bounty of the English language.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- cxenseparse_start --><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump recommends <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/with-elimination-of-nea-and-neh-trumps-budget-is-worst-case-scenario-for-arts-groups\/2017\/03\/15\/5291645a-09bb-11e7-a15f-a58d4a988474_story.html?utm_term=.b3aa1e170922\">abolishing federal subsidies for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting<\/a>. When federally-financed television and radio began, there were vastly fewer options on the television and radio dial. Considering the bounty that technology is delivering, there is no excuse for spending $445 million a year for news and cultural programing that is consistently biased in favor of Big Government.<\/li>\n<li>Trump proposes a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/weather\/2017\/03\/06\/noaa-budget-cuts-climate-science-satellites\/98809886\/\">17% cut for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration <\/a>(NOAA), which includes the National Weather Service \u2014 which nowadays prefers to play therapist instead of giving taxpayers the best information available. Last Monday, the Weather Service realized that it had <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2017\/03\/15\/blizzard_forecast_truthers.php\">greatly exaggerated likely snowfalls <\/a>from winter storm Stella but refused to correct itself because it feared &#8220;confusing&#8221; folks. A headline from <em>The Gothamist<\/em> website summarized that debacle: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2017\/03\/15\/blizzard_forecast_truthers.php\">National Weather Service: Sorry, You&#8217;re Too Stupid To Trust With The REAL Forecast.<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>Trump calls for sharply slashing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gao.gov\/assets\/680\/679870.pdf\">$1.5 billion<\/a> budget for Food for Peace , <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/SB10001424127887324482504578452751341751038\">America\u2019s most destructive foreign aid program<\/a>.\u00a0For decades, <a href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2013\/01\/11\/subsidizing-starvation\/\">foreign farmers have been bankrupted<\/a>\u00a0when U.S. government agencies dump crops in their nations at harvest time. But the program works out well for the farm lobby, the merchant marine\u00a0and nonprofit groups, and its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/a-subsidy-as-shameful-as-they-come-1464215097\">foreign victims have no lobby in Washington<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- cxenseparse_end --><!-- cxenseparse_start -->The homeland security budget proposes to fizzle away <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/how-much-will-trumps-border-wall-cost\/\"> billions of dollars<\/a> on a border wall \u2014 a monument to Trump\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign that will have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/01\/wall-alone-cant-secure-border-no-matter-pays\/\">little or no impact on curbing illegal immigration<\/a>. On the bright side, the budget favors slashing Urban Area Security Initiative grants \u2014 a howler of a program that has paid for a <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2016\/05\/22\/the-4-trillion-war-on-terror\/print\">latrine-on-wheels in Fort Worth, Texas, sno-cone machines in Michigan, and a &#8220;Zombie Apocolypse<\/a>&#8221; show at a training seminar. Also targeted for cuts is the Transportation Security Administration\u2019s goofily-named VIPR program (Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response) \u2014 which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/08\/06\/us\/tsa-expands-duties-beyond-airport-security.html\">dispatches TSA teams to pointlessly hassle <\/a>bus and train passengers in &#8220;security theater&#8221; at its most absurd.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Trump proposes to devote almost all of the savings from cutting domestic programs into the Pentagon, whose budget would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/washington\/la-na-essential-washington-updates-pentagon-spending-sees-boost-under-1489679568-htmlstory.html\">rise by $52 billion, roughly 10%<\/a>. Since 9\/11, the Defense Department has been Washington\u2019s ultimate sacred cow \u2014 regardless of how badly U.S. military interventions abroad turned out. A Pentagon advisory panel<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/pentagon-buries-evidence-of-125-billion-in-bureaucratic-waste\/2016\/12\/05\/e0668c76-9af6-11e6-a0ed-ab0774c1eaa5_story.html?utm_term=.6db3a7ece33b\"> recently documented $125 billion in bureaucratic waste<\/a>; Pentagon honchos and their political allies quickly buried that report. The Pentagon Inspector General reported that the Army made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/08\/23\/politics\/us-army-audit-accounting-errors\/\">$6.5 trillion in erroneous adjustments <\/a>(Yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-audit-army-idUSKCN10U1IG\">TRILLIONS<\/a>)to its general fund in 2015. At the least, the Pentagon should receive no additional money until it reveals how it spent previous windfalls.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cxenseparse_end --><!-- cxenseparse_start --><\/p>\n<p>The specter overhanging Trump\u2019s budget is the possibility that he could jettison his campaign promises and plunge the nation more deeply into conflicts in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/checkpoint\/wp\/2017\/03\/15\/u-s-military-probably-sending-as-many-as-1000-more-ground-troops-i\">Syria<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2017\/01\/25\/trump-told-afghanistan-president-would-consider-troop-increase.html\">Afghanistan<\/a>, and elsewhere. If that happens, federal spending could quickly soar out of control <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-iraq-war-anniversary-idUSBRE92D0PG20130314\">as it did in the George W. Bush administration<\/a>. What is the point of draining the swamp if all the savings are poured down other budgetary rat holes?<\/p>\n<p><!-- cxenseparse_end --><!-- cxenseparse_start --><\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s budget would be better if it included more corporate welfare targets \u2014 such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/living-off-the-fat-of-washington-1481491337\">farm subsidies<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 on the hit list. Regardless, his proposals are evoking screams of agony inside the Beltway. A <em>Washington Post<\/em> article fretted that, under Trump\u2019s budget, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/through-his-budget-a-bottom-line-look-at-trumps-new-washington\/2017\/03\/12\/29739206-05be-11e7-b9fa-ed727b644a0b_story.html?utm_term=.5f0b3b3d91e4\">government would be smaller<\/a>\u00a0and less involved in regulating life in America.&#8221; Actually, there was an election last November and the people who did not want their lives micromanaged by federal agencies won.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cxenseparse_end --><!-- cxenseparse_start --><\/p>\n<p><em>James Bovard,\u00a0author of\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Public-Policy-Hooligan-Rollicking-Washington-ebook\/dp\/B00AKZH97W\">Public Policy Hooligan<\/a>,<em>\u00a0is\u00a0a member of USA TODAY\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/reporters\/boc.html\">Board of Contributors<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA TODAY, March 19, 2017 Trump budget cuts bankroll new waste by James Bovard\u00a0 Trump proposes to devote almost all of the savings from cutting domestic programs into the Pentagon. \u00a0President Trump\u2019s proposed budget takes a big step towards draining the swamp in Washington. 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