President Donald Trump speaks at the National Governors Association meeting in the State Dining Room of the White House on Feb. 27, 2017 (Credit: Aude Guerrucci-Pool/Getty Images)
by Carolyn Yeager
PRESIDENT TRUMP INSTRUCTED FEDERAL AGENCIES MONDAY TO ASSEMBLE A BUDGET for the coming fiscal year that includes a 9% increase in Defense Department spending, with drastic enough cuts to wasteful spending elsewhere in the government to compensate. He intends to leave Social Security and Medicare alone.
Trump is reported to want a budget with tens of billions of dollars in reductions to the Environmental Protection Agency and the State Department (largely in foreign aid), as well as a few other domestic agencies here and there.
One area he can easily save money is the unnecessary position of Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, which was only established within the State Dept. in 2004 and accomplishes absolutely nothing for the United States of America. It is a plum thrown to Jews, just as is the U.S. Holocaust Museum, but a heck of a lot more expensive than the museum.
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