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Trump will release his new budget on Thursday and, according to a report from the AP, Trump’s plan would get rid of a dozen departments and sets aside more than $1 billion in immediate funding for his border wall.
The $1.15 trillion budget, titled “America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again,” would eliminate, among other programs, the National Endowment for the Arts, a program providing legal aid for people who cannot afford it, a program to clean and protect the Great Lakes and AmeriCorps.
Trump’s proposal also cuts funding for programs that the AP reports are “congressional favorites,” like a program providing assistance to homeless military veterans.
According to the New York Times, the Environmental Protection Agency is “among the hardest-hit agencies” in Trump’s proposed budget. Read more (3/16/17 6:43 AM)
Trump’s budget proposal would cut $9 billion from the Department of Education — amounting to a 13% reduction in the department’s funding.
Included in the proposed $9 billion reduction are cuts to financial aid to low-income Americans seeking to earn a college degree.
That means the Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant program — which gives grants up to $4,000 to “financially needy undergraduate students, who have not earned a bachelor’s or professional degree,” according to the Department of Education — would be completely eliminated.
Trump’s budget blueprint would also “significantly” reduce funding to the Federal Work-Study program — which gives colleges and universities across the country funding to employ needy undergraduate and graduate students in on-campus jobs, according to the Department of Education.
And the Pell Grant program — which awards needy undergraduate students up to $5,920 — would also see a $3.9 billion cut if Congress adopted Trump’s budget proposal. Read more (3/16/17 10:41 AM)
On Thursday, the Trump administration released a preliminary 2018 budget proposal, which details many of the changes the president wants to make to the federal government’s spending. The proposal covers only discretionary, not mandatory, spending.
On March 15th, each of us will mail Donald Trump a postcard that publicly expresses our opposition to him. And we, in vast numbers, from all corners of the world, will overwhelm the man with his unpopularity and failure.
We will show the media and the politicians what standing with him — and against us — means. And most importantly, we will bury the White House post office in pink slips, all informing Donnie that he’s fired.
Each of us — every protester from every march, each congress calling citizen, every boycotter, volunteer, donor, and petition signer — if each of us writes even a single postcard and we put them all in the mail on the same day, March 15th, well: you do the math.
No alternative fact or Russian translation will explain away our record-breaking, officially-verifiable, warehouse-filling flood of fury. Hank Aaron currently holds the record for fan mail, having received 900,000 pieces in a year. We’re setting a new record: over a million pieces in a day, with not a single nice thing to say.
So sharpen your wit, unsheathe your writing implements, and see if your sincerest ill-wishes can pierce Donald’s thin skin.
Prepare for March 15th, 2017, a day hereafter to be known as #TheIdesOfTrump
Write one postcard. Write a dozen! Take a picture and post it on social media tagged with #TheIdesOfTrump ! Spread the word! Everyone on Earth should let him know how he’s doing.
They can’t build a wall high enough to stop the mail.
Then, on March 15th, mail your messages to:
President (for now) Donald J. Trump
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Not my original post but someone else’s great idea!
Copy and repost.
* write- I did not get paid to do this -on your post card.
trump likes to claim that we are getting paid for protesting.
Employers added 235,000 new jobs in February, dropping the unemployment rate to 4.7%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced in their monthly jobs report released on Friday.
It’s a number Trump touted, retweeting a Drudge Report headline saying the economy is “GREAT AGAIN” in all capital letters.
But Trump once called the same report he is now celebrating “phony,” saying real unemployment numbers were much higher than the what the BLS reported. Read more (3/10/17 9:41 PM)
On Friday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer had no shame in admitting his boss, President Trump, only accepts facts and figures when they favor his cause.
The admission came after a reporter asked during Spicer’s daily press briefing why Trump celebrated Friday’s jobs report, when he called previous reports under Obama "phony.“
“I talked to the president prior to this,” Spicer said. “And he said, to quote him very clearly, ‘They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now.’”
Spicer may have been joking, as he delivered the line with a wry smile and chuckled after he finished. The White House press corps laughed along with him.
There are multiple instances where Trump and his administration decried polls or news outlets as “fake news” when the information wasn’t helpful to their cause, but later touted those same polls or news outlets when they reported something favorable. Read more (3/10/17 3:19 PM)
my friend saw this at a trump protest and im still laughing
“Donald Trump’s administration is proposing a 25% reduction in the EPA’s $8.1bn budget, eliminating nearly 3,000 jobs and several programs including the agency’s environmental justice office. Funding for the cleanup of lead, marine pollution, tribal lands and the Great Lakes region faces severe cuts, while climate initiatives are earmarked for a 70% budget reduction. The environmental justice office is tasked with bridging the yawning disparity in pollution experienced by black, Hispanic and low-income communities and wealthier white neighborhoods. It provides grants to communities to mop up toxins and rehabilitate abandoned industrial facilities that are invariably found in poorer areas. In the final months of Barack Obama’s administration, the EPA unveiled a new effort to tackle lead poisoning, air pollution and other problems suffered by communities of color situated next to waste treatment plants, smelters and other sources of toxins. But this plan will be cut down in its infancy should the environmental justice office be dismantled.”
