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House GOP Budget Picture Starts to Develop: Increased Overall Spending & CBO est. ~$2,400,000,000,000 in Additional Debt

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Trump is proposing Congress cut $163 billion in non-defense spending next year

The "skinny budget" is a summary of budget proposals that presidents often release in their first term

1.4M of the nation’s poorest renters risk losing their homes with Trump’s proposed HUD time limit

New research from New York University, obtained exclusively by The Associated Press and published Thursday, found that if families were cut off after two years, 1.4 million households could lose their vouchers and public housing subsidies — largely working families with children.
 
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1.4M of the nation’s poorest renters risk losing their homes with Trump’s proposed HUD time limit

New research from New York University, obtained exclusively by The Associated Press and published Thursday, found that if families were cut off after two years, 1.4 million households could lose their vouchers and public housing subsidies — largely working families with children.
He doesn't care. And his spineless senate and House are still afraid of him.
 
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He doesn't care. And his spineless senate and House are still afraid of him.

I’m all for this plan, for this reason: every dollar spent on housing for able-bodied people is one less dollar available to provide housing for the elderly and disabled, who really actually need that housing.
 
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A skinny budget to "feed" bloated, gluttonous, fat cats is not the American way.
I’m all for this plan, for this reason: every dollar spent on housing for able-bodied people is one less dollar available to provide housing for the elderly and disabled, who really actually need that housing.
And every dollar taken away from both groups is a win-win for the billionaires' coffers.
 
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And every dollar taken away from both groups is a win-win for the billionaires' coffers

Actually not, because homelessness adversely impacts property values. Anyone invested in real estate has a vested interest in helping the homeless.
 
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