Following the Trump administration’s disastrous rollout of its budget proposal yesterday, voters are waking up to sobering headlines about how the budget cuts will affect communities around the country. From heating homes in New Hampshire households, to assistance provided to low-income and elderly people in Ohio, to public health concerns and water safety in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump’s budget is being exposed as a disaster for working class families in every corner of the country.
While millions of Americans stand to lose under the proposed budget, the real question is how Republican Senators and Congressmen will respond to voters’ concerns about the cuts? If they’re reading the same headlines as the American people, they should get ready to answer some tough questions from their constituents.
Here are just a few of the headlines from this morning’s newspapers:
Concord Monitor: Hassan, Shaheen attack Trump’s budget proposal
Baltimore Sun: Maryland Public Television would lose $3 million under proposed Trump budget
Orlando Sentinel: AARP says Trumpcare cuts, ‘age tax’ will hit Florida hardest
Tampa Bay Times: From Florida, bipartisan bashing of Trump’s budget plan
Tampa Bay Times: Editorial: Trump budget cuts put Florida coast at risk
Miami Herald: Florida scientists fear hurricane forecasts, climate research will suffer under Trump
“The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative — now a $300 million undertaking to clean up and keep invasive species from the world’s largest single source of fresh surface water — would be zeroed out, despite the fact that the project directly benefits the same upper industrial Midwestern states — Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin — that elevated Trump to the presidency in November.” – Columbus Dispatch
Cleveland Plain Dealer: Trump budget would devastate public broadcasting, local stations say
“Despite his claims to increase infrastructure spending $1 trillion in the next decade, Trump’s proposed budget does not include any increases to transportation funding.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Trump’s budget also would nix the Appalachian Regional Commission, a federal-state-local partnership aimed at serving as a regional economic-development agency for 13 Appalachian states, including Ohio, where all but two Appalachian counties voted for Trump.” – Columbus Dispatch
“It’s not entirely in line with Trump’s campaign pledges. It would make a big down payment on the U.S.-Mexico border wall, which Trump repeatedly promised the Mexicans would pay for. American taxpayers will, at least for now. Thursday’s proposal calls for an immediate $1.4 billion infusion.” – Akron Beacon Journal
The proposed budget would close numerous county offices that help farmers and rural residents navigate farm subsidy and rural development programs. – Akron Beacon Journal
Detroit News: Trump’s budget plan hurts Michigan, Great Lakes cleanup
Michigan Live: Trump’s budget cuts would ‘dramatically affect’ University of Michigan
Michigan Live: Five ways Donald Trump’s budget proposal could impact Michigan
Michigan Live: Trump budget eliminates Great Lakes cleanup funds
PennLive: ‘It’s entirely a vendetta’: Pittsburgh arts organizations react to Trump’s proposed budget
PennLive: Drink water in Pennsylvania? Trump’s budget puts your health at risk, regulator says
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Proposed HUD cuts would hit close to home in Western Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Inquirer: Trump EPA cuts could have even bigger trickle-down impact on Pa., N.J.
Philadelphia Inquirer: “Trump’s proposed budget would cut funding for the National Institutes of Health, a major funder for Philadelphia’s medical schools and research hospitals, by $5.8 billion or 19 percent.”
CBS Philadelphia: “One of the most devastating cuts would be to a program that provides heating assistance for the poor…Some 75,000 Philadelphians rely on [LIHEAP] to stay warm and avert tragedies such as carbon monoxide poisoning, or fires caused by unsafe heat sources.”
Reno Gazette-Journal: $500k for Reno homeless shelter axed from Trump budget
Las Vegas Sun: Trump takes a gamble in cutting programs his base relies on
Las Vegas Sun: Local housing officials wary of proposed Trump cuts
WKSU Ohio: President Trump’s Proposed Budget Would Hurt Ohio’s Neediest
Virginian-Pilot: Many Trump voters would feel program cuts in budget proposal
“Trump also wants to eliminate funding for the Appalachian Regional Commission…the agency has spent more than $4 billion on Appalachia, which in turn has leveraged $16 billion in private funding. In that time, poverty rates have been cut nearly in half…The percentage of high school graduates has doubled…The infant mortality rate there has been cut by two-thirds. All that counts as success.” – Roanoke Times
WHSV Virginia: Trump budget cuts funding for EPA’s Chesapeake Bay program
Richmond Times-Dispatch: Trump budget axes funding for Chesapeake Bay cleanup
Petersburg Progress Index: Trump budget cuts all federal funding for Chesapeake Bay Previous
U.S. News & World Report: Trump Budget Cuts Funding for EPA’s Chesapeake Bay Program
KPNX Arizona: Trump’s Budget Cuts Immigration Aid, Stunning Arizona Sheriff
KVOA Arizona: “Sashing funds for the departments of State, Agriculture, Labor, Health and Human Services, Commerce and Education.”
PBS Arizona: Trump budget targets grant benefiting 35,000 Arizona college students
“Advocates for children are concerned about the future of well-known programs like Head Start, and others that have proven effective in assisting new parents and preventing child abuse.” – Arizona Public News Service
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “Trump’s proposed cuts would slice $70 million out of more than a half billion dollars in Pell Grants for Missouri students, and that Trump-proposed cuts in the Environmental Protection Agency could reduce federal aid to Missouri by $15 million.”
KSHB Missouri: Kansas City metro programs for struggling families and elderly on the chopping block
KY7 Missouri: “Trump’s proposed budget would cut funding for Meals on Wheels…In Springfield, the Southside Senior Center alone delivers up to 200 meals a day, and their waiting list for the program keeps growing.”
Central Pennsylvania Business Journal: Proposed budget cuts could land hard in Central Pa.
Rapid City Journal: “Montana has more at risk than most states as the Trump Administration takes aim at the Environmental Protection Agency.”
Star Press (Indiana): Trump budget would eliminate Muncie Community Development program
WBAA Indiana: Indiana Researchers Warily Eye Prospective NIH Funding Cuts
WBOI Indiana: Advocates Say Trump Budget Cuts Will Hurt Country’s Most Vulnerable
Arkansas Democrat Gazette: Trump’s plan guts agency boosting Arkansas Delta region
Published: Mar 17, 2017