Trump hits DC with $10.5 trillion in cuts!

WASHINGTON (PNN) - January 22, 2017 - Well, this certainly sounds promising if it comes to pass. Named and unnamed sources inside the Donald Trump transition team have said that President Donald Trump has been working with others to bring about a massive reduction in spending. The proposed cuts hew closely to a blueprint published last year by the conservative Heritage Foundation, a think tank that helped staff the Trump transition team.

Similar proposals have in the past won support from Republicans in the House and Senate, who believe they have an opportunity to truly tackle spending after years of warnings about the rising debt.

Many of the specific cuts were included in the 2017 budget adopted by the conservative Republican Study Committee (RSC), a caucus that represents a majority of House Republicans. The RSC budget plan would reduce federal spending by $8.6 trillion over the next decade.

Two members of Trump’s transition team are discussing the cuts at the White House budget office: Russ Vought, a former aide to Vice President Mike Pence and the former executive director of the RSC, and John Gray, who previously worked for Pence, Senator Rand Paul (Kent.), and Speaker Paul Ryan (Wis.) when Ryan headed the House Budget Committee.

Vought and Gray, who both worked for the Heritage Foundation, are laying the groundwork for the so-called skinny budget - a 175-200 page document that will spell out the main priorities of the incoming Trump regime, along with summary tables. That document is expected to come out within 45 days of Trump taking office.

The regime’s full budget, including appropriations language, supplementary materials, and long-term analysis, is expected to be released toward the end of Trump’s first 100 days in office, or by mid- to late April.

The Departments of Energy, Commerce, Transportation, Justice and State are all going to be facing massive cuts in spending, including the elimination of some programs in some of the departments.

Additionally, the Trump regime is looking towards the privatization of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as well as the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities.

At the Amerikan Gestapo Department of InJustice division, the blueprint calls for eliminating the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, Violence Against Women Grants, and the Legal Services Corporation, and for reducing funding for its Civil Rights and its Environment and Natural Resources divisions.

At the Amerikan Gestapo Department of Energy division, it would roll back funding for nuclear physics and advanced scientific computing research to 2008 levels, eliminate the Office of Electricity, eliminate the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and scrap the Office of Fossil Energy, which focuses on technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

Under the Amerikan Gestapo Department of State division’s jurisdiction, funding for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the Paris Climate Change Agreement, and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are candidates for elimination.

The expected savings from the cuts are expected to be $10.5 trillion over 10 years.