President Donald Trump’s budget proposal got a rough reception Thursday on Capitol Hill.
“Not our starting point.” “Not something that will fly around here politically.” “Congress will do its own budget.”
And that’s just the Republicans.
Key GOP lawmakers in the House and Senate already are signaling they won’t move forward with Trump’s proposal.
WASHINGTON POST
Defense hawks, rural conservatives and even some of Donald Trump’s most vocal supporters in Congress pushed back on the huge potential hike in defense spending as insufficient and decrying some other cuts to federal agencies and programs. Several of his closest allies have said the plan has virtually no chance in Congress.
The proposed cuts will fall hardest on rural and small town communities that Trump won, where one in three people are living paycheck to paycheck, according to a new analysis by the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank.