President Trump's War On Children

Our country’s finances must replicate our country’s professed values, however President Trump’s 2018 Federal Budget, “A New Foundation for America’s Greatness,” radically does the other. This immoral finances proclaims struggle on America’s youngsters, our maximum prone workforce, and the basis of our country’s present and long run financial, army and management safety. It cruelly dismantles and shreds America’s protection web laboriously woven during the last part century to lend a hand and provides hope to the 14.five million youngsters suffering lately in a sea of poverty, starvation, illness, miseducation, homelessness and disabilities. It slashes trillions of bucks from well being care, diet and different crucial systems that give deficient young children and youngsters a good basis in existence to guarantee trillions of bucks in tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires and robust companies who don’t deserve large doses of presidency toughen.

The merciless Trump finances invests extra in our army — already the costliest on the planet — however denies prone youngsters and teenagers the revenue, well being care, meals, housing and training helps they want to develop into robust long run squaddies to shield our nation. Seventy-one p.c of our 17- to 24-year-olds at the moment are ineligible for army carrier as a result of well being and training deficits. It seeks to construct a wall to stay immigrants out by way of slashing helps for the ones inside of who will also be counted directly to lend a hand personnel our companies and factories and different services and products. This finances creates extra inequality and not more alternative for the ones suffering to make ends meet and is a grave injustice.

President Trump invests in combating the ones he sees as out of doors enemies thru guns and partitions and turns his again at the interior enemies that threaten the fundamental home desires of our other people — well being care, housing, training and jobs that pay residing wages. The Congress and the folk of the United States should reject President Trump’s 2018 finances and the imply spirited values it displays. It proclaims struggle on youngsters and dealing other people suffering to toughen their households by way of ignoring even their most simple desires and offers trillions to people who wouldn’t have large govt toughen — particularly at a time of file wealth and revenue inequality.

The president’s 2018 finances:

• Slashes $610 billion over 10 years from Medicaid, which just about 37 million youngsters depend on for a wholesome get started in existence and which can pay for just about part of all births and guarantees protection for 40 p.c of our kids with particular well being care desires. The finances additionally assumes passage of the greater than $800 billion further cuts in Medicaid integrated within the American Health Care Act for a overall Medicaid bloodbath of greater than $1.four trillion over 10 years.

• Rips $five.7 billion from CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program), which covers just about nine million youngsters in operating households ineligible for Medicaid. The proposed cap on CHIP investment for households at 250 p.c of the poverty stage threatens protection for hundreds of thousands of youngsters within the 24 states and the District of Columbia that experience selected to increase protection to youngsters in households with somewhat upper earning.

• Snatches meals out of the mouths and stomachs of hungry youngsters by way of cutting $193 billion over 10 years from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which some nonetheless name meals stamps. SNAP feeds just about 46 million other people together with just about 20 million youngsters. This reduce is an extraordinary 25 p.c relief in a core protection web program that during 2014 lifted four.7 million other people, together with 2.1 million youngsters, out of poverty. For the four.nine million families, 1.three million with youngsters, with out a money revenue who depend handiest on SNAP to stay the wolves of starvation from their doorways, those cuts can be a catastrophic attack.

• Chops $22 billion over 10 years from TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program) together with $6 billion that gets rid of the TANF Contingency Fund which is helping toughen a few of our neediest households.

• Slashes systems to help households with housing and finish homelessness by way of $7.four billion, a 15 p.c reduce for 2018 together with $2.three billion from Housing Choice Vouchers, which would go away greater than 250,000 low revenue families with out them; $1.eight billion — just about 29 p.c — from public housing already in determined want of restore and growth; and $133 million — five.6 p.c — from homeless help grants.

• Whacks $72 billion over 10 years from the Supplemental Security Income Program (SSI), which greater than eight million youngsters and adults with probably the most serious disabilities rely on to stay going. Despite the President’s promise to not reduce Social Security, his finances cuts $48 billion from Social Security Disability Insurance which assists, amongst others, grandparents and different relations elevating youngsters as a result of their oldsters can not deal with them.

• Cuts $40 billion over 10 years from the Child Tax Credit (CTC) and Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) by way of barring tax-paying undocumented immigrant staff, many with American citizen youngsters, from making the most of the Child Tax Credit except they’ve a Social Security quantity, and making it more difficult for them to have the benefit of the Earned Income Tax Credit created to praise laborious paintings and lend a hand oldsters toughen their youngsters.

• Slashes process coaching systems by way of $1.1 billion, or 40 p.c, over 10 years for teenagers, adults and dislocated staff. It denigrates the concept that of public carrier jobs by way of getting rid of the Corporation for National and Community Service, and with it AmeriCorps, Vista and Senior Corps.

• Cuts federal training investment $nine.2 billion in 2018 on my own at a time when a majority of youngsters in all racial and financial teams can not learn or compute at grade stage. It slashes $143 billion over 10 years from pupil loans by way of getting rid of the mortgage program that encourages graduates to take public carrier jobs and restricts different systems that subsidize school training for first era school scholars and others from low revenue households. And it proposes so as to add $1 billion in new investment for the Title I program for deprived scholars, which has traditionally supplemented sources for college kids in faculties in spaces of concentrated poverty, however for the flawed reason why. It proposes to fund a brand new faculty selection initiative to let youngsters draw Title I price range clear of faculties within the neediest spaces and take them to colleges in upper revenue spaces.

• Shears $54 billion in 2018 ($1.6 trillion over 10 years) in non-defense discretionary systems which come with a extensive vary of well being, early early life, training, youngster welfare and juvenile justice systems in addition to environmental coverage, international help, clinical and medical analysis and different federal govt systems. The Trump finances would scale back spending for those vital systems 2 p.c a yr for the following 10 years.

• Zeroes out investment for the Legal Services Corporation to disclaim the deficient their handiest way to shield themselves in opposition to injustice.

• Eliminates core systems that supply further help to low revenue youngsters, households and communities together with the Social Service Block Grant ($1.four billion in 2018 on my own, $16.three billion over 10 years); the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program to thrust back warmth in the summertime and chilly in iciness months ($three.four billion); the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s HOME, Community Development Block Grant, Indian Community Development Block Grant, and Choice Neighborhood systems ($four.1 billion), and the National Housing Trust Fund which supplies price range to states and native communities to expand reasonably priced condo housing; the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) systems that come with CSBG ($723.6 million), Community Economic Development program ($29. eight million) and Rural Community Facilities ($6.five million).

• Axes the 21st Century Community Learning Program that provides systems to curb summer time studying loss and stay youngsters protected and engaged thru after faculty systems for 1.6 million youngsters; the Preschool Development Grants which went to 18 states to toughen and increase get right of entry to to top of the range preschool for youngsters in high-needs communities; and the Child Care Access Means Parents in School program for folks enrolled in school to help in youngster care prices.

At the similar time, President Trump’s 2018 Budget comprises an estimated $five trillion tax package deal for the wealthiest people and firms who neither want nor deserve large govt toughen and dramatically will increase spending on protection and border safety. The Trump finances:

• Increases base protection spending $54 billion in 2018 on my own (and $489 billion over 10 years). That’s $147,945,205 an afternoon, $6,164,384 an hour and $102,739 a minute. The U.S. army finances is already the most important army finances on the planet. We spend extra at the army than the following 8 nations blended (China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, India, France, United Kingdom, Japan, and Germany).

• Spends $2.6 billion new greenbacks on border safety together with $1.6 billion for a down cost at the President’s proposed obscene wall on the Mexican border estimated to price $10 to $20 billion prior to of entirety and after false marketing campaign guarantees that the Mexican govt would pay.

This draconian finances slashes over $three trillion greenbacks within the subsequent decade and tramples America’s values and is anti-child, anti-poor, and anti-low-income operating other people. It erodes the safety of our country’s long run.

President Dwight Eisenhower, a 5 celebrity basic and World War II hero, understood that throwing cash on the army may just no longer be an excuse for assaulting the deficient and stealing from our kids, announcing, “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies … a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, and the hope of its children.”

The Trump finances would no longer move the check of any nice religion or usual of equity. It should be rejected resoundingly by way of the Congress and the American other people.