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Trump Budget: Increase Military and Restrict Immigration
The administration's 2019 spending plan funds the military, secret
service, and anti-immigration programs and strangles food and
healthcare programs as well as the arts.
U.S. President Trump’s 2019 budget ramps up the military, security,
and anti-immigration spending by billions of dollars, but cuts food
and health programs for the poor and environmental protection
programs.
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By far Trump’s largest budgetary increase would go to the military
and defense. He wants to see a US$74 billion increase over last
year’s military budget proposing a $716 billion for the nation’s
defense. That’s the biggest U.S. military budget since 2011.
The defense increase is mainly for intercontinental ballistic missile
the administration wants to use against its biggest fear - North
Korea.
The administration used the budget to step up the pressure to finish
the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico and increase immigration
and security enforcement. Trump wants to seal off Mexico from the U.S.
along the 104 km stretch that is the Texas’ Rio Grande Valley for
just under $US1.6 billion.
The proposal is seeking $39.8 million for the Executive Office for
Immigration Review, which oversees immigration courts, and in
Trump’s personal crusade against opioid users and Mexicans, his
proposed budget would allocate US$31.2 million for eight new “heroin
enforcement groups” to specifically target Mexican drug cartels.
Trump’s budget seeks another US$782 million to pay for 2,000 new
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and another 750 more
Border Patrol agents.The administration also wants to increase its
immigration detention facility capacity to 52,000 inmates.
Education, housing, food assistance and the environment are among
several areas on Trump’s chopping block.
Trump says that after-school programs should be sharply reduced, while
he proposes US$43 million will go to school-based opioid-use
prevention programs.
The president’s proposal would force the Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD) to slash its rental assistance programs by
over 11 percent, and eliminate the Community Development Block Grants
which have allowed cities and communities to create development
projects and expand green spaces.
“President Trump is making clear, in no uncertain terms, his
willingness to increase evictions and homelessness for the families
who could lose their rental assistance through severe funding cuts”
National Low Income Housing Coalition president and CEO Diane Yentel
said today of the slashes to HUD.If Trump has his way the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be slashed by a third and
Medicare, a 60-year-old healthcare program for the elderly will be cut
by approximately US$500 billion over the next 10 years.
According to the president the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program, which some 42 million Americans benefit from - mainly
children - should be cut by roughly $213 billion over the next 10
years.
The administration hopes to eliminate the National Endowment for the
Arts (NEA) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through the
2019 budget.
Former presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders tweeted today of the
administration's 2019 proposal, "The Trump budget is morally bankrupt.
It is nothing less than an attack on the poor and a major transfer of
wealth from the middle class to the top 1 percent."
WP - Reuters
by teleSUR / ef-MS 
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Trump-Budget-Increase-Military-and-Restrict-Immigration-20180212-0026.html
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