The Budget Director says, “We can’t make single moms pay for public television.”  But we can make them pay for weekend trips to Mar-A-Lago.

The Budget Director says, “It’s a fairly compassionate budget.”  I guess Marie Antoinette called the guillotine a fairly compassionate haircut.

Today we look at the “compassionate” nature of the President’s budget as well as its “benefits” to a single mom, by looking at just a fraction of the programs to which it proposes eliminating or drastically reducing funding:

Assistance to low income people in paying their energy bills.

Habitat for Humanity – builds affordable housing for homeowners based on their level of need.
EPA – protects human health and the environment.
Meals on Wheels – delivers meals to individual who are unable to purchase or prepare their own.
Worker training and safety programs.
NASA – responsible for the civilian space program as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.
NOAA – warns of dangerous weather and protects ocean and coastal resources.
National Institute of Health – primary agency responsible for biomedical and health related research.
National Public Radio – produces and distributes news and cultural programming.
PBS – distributes programming such as Sesame Street to public television stations.
Health professional training.
Interagency Agency Council on Homelessness – rental assistance to low income people.
National Endowment for the Arts – support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.
Institute of Museum and Library Services – creating strong libraries and museums.
Smithsonian Institution – 19 museums, 9 research centers and zoo, with 156 million items.
National Gallery of Art - Western art from the Middle Ages to the present.
After school and summer programs.
Manufacturing Extension Partnership – helps small companies create and maintain good paying jobs.

Now, to put things in perspective, items not affected by the budget:

Security costs for keeping the Trump family 100 miles away in New York: $410,000 per day.

Each weekend for the family at Mar-A-Lago: over $3,000,000.
Security costs for Trump son’s business trip: $16,000.
Total Trump travel and security costs for 4 years: $500 MILLION DOLLARS.

Trump has bragged about his tremendous wealth, so why doesn’t he pitch in on the expenses.  Instead, among other outrageous consequences, his budget could mean 200,000 people might lose the roofs over their heads.

Is this America????