b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 1 A growing number of Republican senators are distancing themselves from
President Trump's annual budget proposal.
Sen. Dean Heller (Nev.), the most vulnerable GOP senator up for reelection
in 2018, blasted Trump's fiscal year 2018 budget as "anti-Nevada."
“From slashing funding for important public lands programs to its renewed
effort to revive the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, the President
’s budget request contains several anti-Nevada provisions," he said in a
statement.
Trump's budget includes money to restart licensing to store nuclear waste in
Yucca Mountain after Obama halted a plan to use the mountain as a permanent
storage facility for nuclear and radioactive waste.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-Wis.) told Bloomberg that Trump's proposal is "
terrible," pointing to deep cuts to the State Department. As outlined in
March, the proposal would cut the department and other non-defense agencies
like the Environmental Protection Agency by roughly a third.
Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) said he also continues "to oppose this budget’s
proposed elimination of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative."
Overall, Trump's proposal would cut $1.5 trillion in non-defense spending
and $1.4 trillion in Medicaid cuts over the course of a decade, while adding
nearly half a trillion dollars to defense spending.
But Republicans, who have a 52-seat majority in the Senate and can pass a
budget with a simple majority, are expected to set aside many of Trump's
proposals as they craft their own legislation later in the year.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said on Tuesday that the president's "budget
request is always subject to significant revision."
"Throughout my time in the Senate, I have never seen a President's budget
make it through Congress unchanged," she added.
Republicans routinely forced votes on Obama's proposals, which earned near
unanimous rejection in 2015. Noting the Obama-era votes, Sen. John Cornyn (R
-Texas) told reporters on Monday evening that presidents' budgets are
frequently "dead on arrival" in Congress.
GOP defense hawks are also taking issue with the level of defense spending
in Trump's proposal, arguing it is inadequate to a military they believe has
been hollowed by years of budget cuts.
“President Trump’s $603 billion defense budget request is inadequate to
the challenges we face, illegal under current law, and part of an overall
budget proposal that is dead on arrival in Congress," Sen. John McCain (R-
Ariz.), a frequent critic of the president, said in a statement.
Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), the House Armed Services Committee chairman,
said at a Brookings event on Monday that Trump's defense proposal was "
basically the Obama approach with a bit more but not much." | m********g
发帖数: 10469 | | h***e
发帖数: 2823 | 3 好事啊。反正选举以前就不招共和党建制派待见，谁还会指望当选了就一笑泯恩仇？
姿态做足了，建制派上蹿下跳只会让选民更明确，2020稳稳的。爱通过不通过。 | t******g
发帖数: 1815 | 4 那是肯定的
mc cain and Graham的话完全不用看 | R**********9
发帖数: 1487 | 5 看到这帮RINO出来反对，看来这budget不错
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【在 t******g 的大作中提到】
: 那是肯定的
: mc cain and Graham的话完全不用看
| z*****y
发帖数: 554 | 6 同感……只需要看这些senators是谁不需要知道他们说啥就知道床老的budget呱呱棒！
【在 R**********9 的大作中提到】
: 看到这帮RINO出来反对，看来这budget不错
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: ★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 16
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