GellerReport: The Trump train is a-coming, and get ready, because it’s bringing a pile of proposals that are marked by cuts in government, reductions in service, outright elimination of departments and offices and – this is the big news – huge savings of taxpayer dollars.
How huge? To the tune of $10.5 trillion, according to financial estimates.
The Hill, citing both named and unnamed sources, said staffers with the Donald Trump transition team have been meeting with various career workers at the White House to discuss how best and fastest to put the shrink on Big Government. And what they’ve come up with is dramatic.
In the works, according to the Hill: Big reductions in spending at the departments of Energy and Commerce, including outright eliminations of some programs; reductions in spending at the departments of Transportation, Justice and State; and the privatization of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
And the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities?
Gone, completely eliminated, the Hill reported. MORE
And when the well-pruned tree of government bears fruit, you know who will be piping up from the fairway to take credit for making it possible. Guaranteed.
Yea but he’s not a conservative. Just ask Levin. He spent a good fifteen minutes driving home that point yesterday.
Barry wasn’t a Mooslem either.
I tried listening to levin a couple days ago. He is just a miserable, sob, nowadays. I can’t/won’t try again. See ya later, mark.
This is also Jim DeMint’s legacy. We’ve been missing him, but now his presence is felt.
This is great. Now if we could just get senators and representatives that see their job as reducing our taxes rather than shoveling as much money as possible into their state or district in order insure their re-election.
Eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities–I can hear the shrieks and screeches already from Meryl Streep and her ilk. Oh, well, there’s always the MMA. I gave up on the NFL.
“piping up from the fairway” — love that description!
Reminds me of Barney Fife (no disrespect mean to the beloved Deputy.
Get rid of the EPA – that is THE single most pernicious Agency in the Leviathan.
Kill the Beast. Don’t wound it. Don’t “shrink” it. Don’t attempt to “domesticate” it. It is a ravening beast.
Governments always tend towards Centralization.
Agencies always tend towards Expansion.
The longer an elected/appointed “official” remains, the more estranged it becomes.
Simple facts of life. America would do well to learn them.
izlamo delenda est …
I pray this is true and he and congress will follow through with this plan. However, as I recall, the closest thing to immortality is a federal program. Also, congress only knows how to spend more than they have. I will be a miracle even if the cut 10% of what is planned,
America is going to enter a very painful economic period. Remember that a lot of these programs were funded through borrowed money so as not to increase tax rates which effectively created a huge, cancerous tumour within the economic body of the US. A tumour that has been growing since both Bush and Obama (Clinton had something to do with it’s inception as well by forcing the CRA open for business). There will be a lot less money in circulation and likely a lot of government jobs lost and a job lost is a job lost, public or private.
Don’t get me wrong, this had to be done else the crash that would surely result would make 1929 look like a blip in the market. My point is that when the screaming starts, the ads on TV showing a family in shambles after the cuts and the outright lies and personal attacks that will take place start it’s up to conservatives of every stripe and degree to send notes of support to their congress critter and the WH to help them hold steady on course. Your grandkids (even if some of them are snowflakes) will thank you for it.
There are just over 300 million U.S. citizens and just over 3 million federal employees.
Federal employees – the REAL one percent.
My company is constantly looking to “rightsize”.
Why shouldn’t the government?
LET THE WAILING AND GNASHING OF TEETH BEGIN!!!!!!!
The Hollywood leftists who are upset because of cuts to Arts and Humanities? Am I missing something? Does the new law state that Hollywood leftists cannot fund this nonsense themselves?
http://usinfonews.com/index.php/2017/01/16/wikileaks-clinton-bribed-6-republicans-destroy-trump/
Just put a article please tweet and Facebook to very important information
Please send it to many people that you can is very important
“the privatization of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
And the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities? Gone, completely eliminated”
WOOHOO!!!! No more government sponsorship of crap! If it’s good, then let it stand on its own merit.
Claudia and the rest of the bloggers please send this information to all your Facebook and tweet friends is the article about Hillary Clinton bribes 5 republican to destroy trump
color me Tickled Pink
Oh, Claudia, I’m so with you on this my dear! It’s been, the more weird and off-the-wall you are, the more bucks from Uncle Sam. No more. All you so-called progressive artists can now starve for real. Take your Jesus submerged in mucus display and hug it as you freeze to death in some back alley. No mercy. No exceptions. And that goes for you queers and black radical artist-wanna-be’s too.
FOUR of the richest counties in America surround Washington, D.C. That’s no coincidence. For every dollar that flows through the Swamp, about 40-cents of it is siphoned off by the army of bureaucrats, regulators, “public servants” and outright crooks.
These same D.C. leeches have passed laws against anyone else doing what they do: RICO Statutes.
Drain The Swamp®.
Hallelujah [x4]
I hope he streamlines NEA to where it funds the arts in schools in poverty stricken areas and provides scholarships to kids who want an arts education-be that it’s toward a career where you can be gainfully employed (animator, game design etc…) not hemp basket weaving or how to form a drum circle. No funding for literally crappy art- but toward the growth of true art and skills.
Reducing Dept of Commerce is YUGE. They not only have the National Weather Propaganda Service, but the Census Bureau, which has been morphed into a a social engineering and redistribution tool. I recently received the American Community Survey from the Census Bureau. It’s extremely intrusive. Let’s just say I’ll ignore it until they start badgering me, which they will. Then I’ll play stupid (some insist I’m not playing). Then I’ll move to belligerent and uncooperative.
The regular survey of 2000 resulted in 3 personal visits from Census because I wouldn’t declare a race/ethnicity. The last visit I told them that if race is that important to them and of no importance to me, go ahead and assign me the race of their choosing, warning that it’s a crime to provide false information.
Never heard from them again.
Nah, let the National-EA go away. Locals want art training? Locals can fund it… and they won’t waste their own money.
Frankly-
I searched wikileaks and it turned up nothing. If that email existed, it would have been on Assange’s twitter feed, Jeb! and the others would have been booted long before they dropped out.
Frankly – Can you provide a link to the Wiki documents referred to in your leak?
MJA – I didn’t see your post. I checked the source cited found zero. Frankly, I think, is trying to frank with us.
All aboard that train!
Good! Our money does not need to fund filth like ‘P*ss Christ’. Thanks Donald!
Let the big mouths in Hollyweird fund as much garbage as they want out of their own pockets.
Eliminate all public funding given directly or indirectly to professional sports and the entertainment industry!
Also, eliminate entirely, all public funds appropriated to ex-presidents for travel, office space and staff!
I’m with Sam, defund the millionaires. Period.