Look CLOSELY and find which cuts benefit Americans or the long- term interests and strength of the United States.
Where is the long-term strategic plan?
And keep in mind, it assumes much of the spending shifts to the states.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU OR YOUR COUNTRY. IT IS ABOUT AN ANTI-FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IDEOLOGY AND TAX CUTS regardless of the consequences.
I put a 🔥 by those I believe are most detrimental over time.
According to administration officials, Trump’s proposed budget cuts include:
Eliminating offices at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Defunding “environmental justice” initiatives at the EPA
🔥Closing USAID and reallocating grant funding
🔥Eliminating a federal program that provides grants to nonprofits that help people who face housing discrimination
Defunding the National Endowment for Democracy, a nonprofit that supports democratic institutions around the world
Cutting what it calls “wasteful and woke FEMA grant programs”
Closing the U.S. Institute of Peace, a congressionally funded think tank that seeks to prevent global conflict
🔥Refocusing the National Institutes of Health on research that aligns with Trump’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda
🔥Eliminating a $315 million grant program for preschool development that the administration contends pushed DEI initiatives
🔥Cutting $77 million in grant funding for teacher preparation and professional development the administration says pushed “Critical Race Theory” and DEI initiatives
🔥Eliminating the Minority Business Development Agency, which promotes minority-owned businesses
🔥Eliminating the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, which promotes economic growth in poor communities
🔥Cutting $5.2 billion from the National Science Foundation
Canceling $15 billion in funding in the infrastructure law signed by former President Joe Biden for renewable energy technology
🔥Eliminating U.S. investments in global funds to help developing countries deal with the effects of climate change
Eliminating EPA research grants to nongovernmental organizations
🔥Cutting $2.5 billion from the Energy Department’s renewable energy program
🔥Cutting $80 million from renewable energy programs at the Interior Department
Eliminating grants at NOAA, which forecasts weather and monitors oceanic and atmospheric conditions, among other things
QUINNSCOMMENTARY 
You won’t notice any difference in your life from any of these cuts. When we look back on it – you’ll probably deny that you were concerned.
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Its sad to see how insignificant these cuts will be to the federal budget. These don’t represent real savings. They’re not even a rounding error. There’s a lot of damage being done by shuttering these programs, but virtually no benefit gained. At least this agenda won’t be around for long, seeing how Americans and American businesses are already in a furor over the current administration.
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The general sentiment out here in the midwest is that most Americans support reducing federal spending on those items not explicitly in the Constitution so that spend matches the revenues collected. Keep in mind that our ~$2 Trillion a year in annual deficits are not because we are collecting less revenue. In FY 2001, the first year of Bush II, we collected and spent about $2T.
In FY 2024, the last full year of the Biden Administration, we had Revenue/Outlays/Deficit: 2024: $5,485B in Revenues, $6,941B in Outlays, for a $1,859B deficit. In FY 2025, established by the Biden Administration, and allowed to continue by the Trump Administration, we had $5,873B in Revenues, $7,266B in Outlays, for a $1,781B deficit. We do not have a revenue issue. We have a spending issue.
We have allowed spending, mostly to buy votes, to increase at rates much faster than Congress’ willingness to increase taxes.
Looking back, many of us who didn’t vote for Bill Clinton found fault with a lot of stuff he did – gays in the Military to Monica’s blue dress, to whatever. However, even fiscal conservatives didn’t find much fault with Bill Clinton’s actions to get reelected to a second term, including notable decisions working with a Republican Congress: “the era of big government is over” (State of the Union, 1996) and government, “end welfare as we have come to know it” (Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign). His was the last Administration to balance the federal budget.
Some of us are old enough to remember that. Was that President Clinton’s initiative or his response to the Republican takeover of Congress in the 1994 mid-terms – or a little of both? Was that more a function of his desire to get reelected, or finally a fulfillment of his 1992 campaign promise.
My point is that most of the complaints about Trump seem to be focused on his haphazard approach, more about the process than the goal, and of course, those who lose their federal funding will all scream how essential they are … and out media will give them a platform for speaking out.
But, it is long past time for the 47% of American households who pay no income taxes, and little other general revenues, to pony up if they want to continue to receive the federal government largess.
And, it is long past time for Congress, and the various administrations, Bush 2, Obama, Trump 1, Biden and Trump 2 to STOP, STOP I say, STOP buying votes with new entitlements, expanded government spending, and all that crap.
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The point is that administrations change every four years. You don’t like this one then wait till 2028. You get another one. Maybe it will be more to your view of the world and how we fit in it.
My point is that I don’t care who set up these spending priorities. I don’t agree with them from the get go. Do they ever end? Is a goal ever set and progress toward it recorded. I never see anything to that effect.
This country is on a collision course with financial calamity. You can say raise taxes all you want but there is an end point to that. There doesn’t seem to be any end point to increased spending. Trump has disappointed me on that score among others. You can have your favorite giveaway schemes but there is a reckoning. I am not a Trump fanboy but I sure as hell can’t stand the leftist progressives.
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with all the “stuff” being written in cyber space, it is so refreshing to read your commentary and see that there remain some common sense people out there. Thank you for a refreshing breeze of sanity. Smith SmallwoodCharlestson, SC
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What was the strategic plan prior to Trumps arrival? What are the results of these programs to date? Where did they fit into the previous strategic plan, if there was one? Were the grants going to only favored groups?
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Ah, there is the rub. The childish, schoolyard mentality. Billy did it so why can’t I, don’t blame me, look what the other guy did or didn’t do.
No doubt the prior admin had major flaws, ignored major problems, made poor decisions.
Not relevant to Trumps actions or behavior.
That doesn’t excuse the current shoot from the hip, open mouth insert foot approach.
The point is to do the right thing for all Americans and the country. To consider our place in the world now and in the future.
We need much better than pushing an ideology and ignoring the consequences.
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Brother Quinn might have more credibility if he was always so thoughtful but now we get his seriousness just a few months after his man loses to the other guy. Quinn is not pushing an ideology–he’s just stating the facts. “Do the right thing” we are now told –what a difference 6 months can make.
Jack/James have the right spin on this. Have some skin in the game and stop buying votes whether you are left–right–center.
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I’ll take any criticism, but just stop referring to my man. I never voted for Biden or any Democrat until Harris and that was only out of desperation in a feeble attempt to stop what we got, not a policy preference.
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