WASHINGTON – Congress has rebuffed President Trump’s proposal to cut $1.2 billion from the National Institutes of Health budget in the current fiscal year. Lawmakers instead are boosting NIH funding by $2 billion, under a spending agreement reached late Sunday night. The deal does not address funding for 2018, when Trump has called for a dramatic…
So now president four-year-old wants to throw a tantrum about it and shut the government down, like that’s gonna help him any.
The additional $25 billion dollars Trump gave to the military is outrages for a number of reasons.
For one thing it’s borrowed money.
That helps nobody except the arms merchants and the vultures on Wall Street who loaned Trump the money, and who will forever rake in the interest on that debt.