Day 390: Trump Budget Gives Dems Huge 2018 Rallying Point

Donald Trump’s budget is legislatively DOA. It won’t pass, it can’t pass, it won’t even go near the floor of either chamber. It’d be political suicide for most Republicans to even discuss some of the points in it. Like many presidential budgets, Congress will nary take a look at it and will formulate their own.

But it does give Democrats strong talking points heading into the 2018 elections.

Among other things, Trump, again, called for the full repeal of the Affordable Care Act and wants to gut funding for the State Department and the EPA. The plan outlines a whopping $1.7 trillion cuts for entitlement programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and food stamps.

Thanks to the new tax cut that primarily benefits the upper class and corporations, along with an increase in military and border spending, Trump’s budget would add $1 trillion to the deficit next year and add $7 trillion to the federal deficit within a decade.

Trump once bragged he could completely eliminate the debt within eight years.

Democrats are already seizing on Trump’s budget, with a clear eye toward the midterm elections.

Expect the message from the left to grow louder: Trump wants to slash Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and affordable housing, all so he can fund tax cuts for his friends.

390 days in, 1072 to go

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